DAGGER


Meaning of DAGGER in English

n. 1 a short stabbing-weapon with a pointed and edged blade. 2 Printing = OBELUS. at daggers drawn in bitter enmity. look daggers at glare angrily or venomously at.

[ ME, perh. f. obs. dag pierce, infl. by OF dague long dagger ]

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