'Dagger' definitions:
Definition of 'dagger'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Dagger'
From: GCIDE
- Dagger \Dag"ger\, v. t. To pierce with a dagger; to stab. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dagger'
From: GCIDE
- Dagger \Dag"ger\, n. [Perh. from diagonal.] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dagger'
From: GCIDE
- Dagger \Dag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), n. [Cf. OE. daggen to pierce, F. daguer. See Dag a dagger.]
- 1. A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Print.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [[dagger]]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk. [1913 Webster]
- Dagger moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larv[ae] are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc.
- Dagger of lath, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. --Shak.
- Double dagger, a mark of reference [[dag]] which comes next in order after the dagger.
- To look daggers, or To speak daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dagger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ankh,
- avellan cross,
- ax,
- bayonet,
- blade,
- bowie knife,
- Calvary cross,
- chi,
- chi-rho,
- christcross,
- Christogram,
- cold steel,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross ancre,
- cross botonee,
- cross bourdonee,
- cross fitche,
- cross fleury,
- cross formee,
- cross fourchee,
- cross grignolee,
- cross moline,
- cross of Cleves,
- cross of Lorraine,
- cross patee,
- cross recercelee,
- cross-crosslet,
- crossbones,
- crosslet,
- crucifix,
- cruciform,
- crux,
- crux ansata,
- crux capitata,
- crux decussata,
- crux gammata,
- crux immissa,
- crux ordinaria,
- cutlery,
- cutter,
- dirk,
- dudgeon,
- edge tools,
- ex,
- exing,
- fork cross,
- gammadion,
- Greek cross,
- impale,
- inverted cross,
- Jerusalem cross,
- knife,
- lance,
- Latin cross,
- long cross,
- Maltese cross,
- naked steel,
- papal cross,
- pectoral cross,
- pierce,
- pigsticker,
- plunge in,
- point,
- poniard,
- potent cross,
- puncturer,
- rood,
- run through,
- Russian cross,
- saber,
- saltire,
- sharpener,
- spear,
- spike,
- spit,
- stab,
- steel,
- stick,
- stiletto,
- swastika,
- sword,
- T,
- tau,
- toad sticker,
- transfix,
- transpierce,
- trefled cross,
- voided cross,
- whittle,
- X