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noun

dagger

a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing

In a sentence

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  • The bronze dagger in case nine has a handle inlaid with garnet and has never left the museum.

    Art

  • The play's most famous speech has a dagger floating in the air, visible only to the man imagining it.

    Literature

  • Archaeologists dated the grave by the dagger laid beside the shoulder, its bronze cast in a mould from Cyprus.

    History

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