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Types of daggers

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Summary

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The following is a list of notable daggers, either historical or modern. A dagger is a short, pointed knife, historically popular as a weapon. Their names are often associated with their appearance or with a specific style of fighting.

Ancient daggers

  • Acinaces
  • Bronze Age dagger
  • Parazonium
  • Pugio
  • Sica

European tradition

;High Middle Ages:

  • Knightly dagger ;Late Middle Ages:
  • Anelace (14th century long English dagger, worn as an accoutrement)
  • Baselard (14th century long cutting dagger)
  • Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape)
  • Poignard ;Renaissance
  • Cinquedea (broad short sword)
  • Misericorde
  • Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) ;Modern
  • (Caucasus and Russia)
  • Dirk (Scotland)
  • Hunting dagger (Germany, 18th-century)
  • Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
  • Sgian-dubh (Scotland)
  • Trench knife (WWI)
  • Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (Britain, WWII)
  • Push dagger

Asian tradition

  • Badik
  • Balarao
  • Balisong (Filipino)
  • Bichuwa (Indian)
  • Hachiwara
  • Haladie (Indian)
  • Jamdhar Katari (Afghanistan)
  • Jambiya (Yemen)
  • Kaiken
  • Kalis
  • Karambit
  • Kard (Persian)
  • Katar
  • Khanjali
  • Khanjar (Oman)
  • Kila
  • Kirpan
  • Kris
  • Kujang
  • Kukri
  • Maduvu
  • Malappuram Kathi
  • Pesh kabz (Afghan)
  • Piha kaetta
  • Punyal
  • Qama
  • Sai
  • Shuckra
  • Tantō
  • Yoroi doshi

African tradition

  • Jile
  • Billao (Somali)
  • Seme
  • Mambele

American tradition

Military issue or commercial designs, 1918 to present.

  • BC-41 (WWII)
  • Cuchillo De Paracaidista (Argentine Paratroopers)
  • Arkansas toothpick (19th-century US)
  • Facón (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
  • Corvo (19th-century Chile)
  • Gerber Mark II (1967)
  • Push dagger
  • Mark I trench knife (WWI)
  • M3 trench knife (WWII)
  • United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII)
  • V-42 stiletto (WWII)
  • Applegate–Fairbairn fighting knife (WWII)
  • M4 bayonet (WWII)
  • "Yank" Levy fighting knife
  • SOG Knife (Vietnam War era)
  • M7 bayonet (Vietnam War era)

References

References

  1. "Dagger".
  2. Weland, Gerald. (2004). "Knives, swords, daggers". Barnes & Nobles Books.
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