The following is a list of notable

dagger A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon.State v. Martin, 633 S.W.2d 80 (Mo. 1982): This is the dictionary or popular-use de ...

s, either historical or modern. A dagger is a knife with a sharp point designed for fighting.

Ancient daggers

Acinaces The acinaces, also spelled akinakes ( Greek ) or akinaka (unattested Old Persian ''*akīnakah'', Sogdian ''kynʼk'') is a type of dagger or xiphos (short sword) used mainly in the first millennium BCE in the eastern Mediterranean Basin, especia ...

*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 (weapon) *Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) ;Modern *Dirk (Scotland) *Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) *Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing) *Sgian-dubh (Scotland) *Trench knife (WWI) *Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (British Armed Forces, WW2) * Puñal (Spain, Latin America) * Push dagger

Asian tradition

African tradition

*Jile *Billao (Somali) *Seme (dagger), Seme

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 (knife), Corvo (19th-century Chile) *Gerber Mark II (1967) *Push dagger *United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII) *V-42 stiletto (WWII) *"Yank" Levy fighting knife

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