dagger
da ger
- n a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- n a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
- It wasn't the gentle theorist but the generals of the world who forged emc2 into the most terrible dagger in human history, and hoisted that Damoclean blade irretrievably over our .
- Five years ago, a policeman was caught creeping up to her house with a dagger.
- A mustachioed bandit with pistols at his sash and a dagger in his hand is suddenly pounced upon by an unarmed man of burly figure clad in impeccable morning clothes.