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dag⋅ger

  [dag-er]
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–noun
1. a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
2. Also called obelisk. Printing. a mark (†) used esp. for references.
–verb (used with object)
3. to stab with or as if with a dagger.
4. Printing. to mark with a dagger.
—Idiom
5. look daggers at, to look at angrily, threateningly, or with hate.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME, prob. alter. of OF dague, of obscure orig.; cf. dag 1
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dag·ger   (dāg'ər)   
n.  

  1. A short pointed weapon with sharp edges.

  2. Something that agonizes, torments, or wounds.

  3. Printing

    1. See obelisk.

    2. A double dagger.


[Middle English daggere, alteration of Old French dague, from Old Provençal dague or Old Italian daga, both perhaps from Vulgar Latin *dāca (ēnsis), Dacian (knife), from feminine of Latin Dācus.]
ob·e·lisk   (ŏb'ə-lĭsk)   
n.  

  1. A tall, four-sided shaft of stone, usually tapered and monolithic, that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.

  2. Printing The dagger sign (†), used especially as a reference mark. Also called dagger, obelus.


[Latin obeliscus, from Greek obeliskos, diminutive of obelos, a spit, obelisk.]
ob'e·lis'cal (-lĭs'kəl) adj., ob'e·lis'koid' (-koid') adj.
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Word Origin & History

dagger 
1375, apparently from O.Fr. dague "dagger," from O.Prov. dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from V.L. *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried a dagger").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

dagger

In addition to the idiom beginning with daggers, also see look daggers.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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dagger

short stabbing knife, ostensibly the diminutive of the sword, though in ancient and medieval times the distinction between a long dagger and a short sword was often obscure. From approximately 1300 the European dagger was consistently differentiated from the sword; in the 16th century a school of fencing developed in which a specially designed dagger with a large guard was held in the left hand and used for parrying.

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