A knife; a short sword or dagger. Obsolete exc. Historical.

A knife used as a weapon of offence or defence; a knife-like weapon; applied to a short sword, cutlass, or hanger. war to the knife: war to the last…

A pointed weapon or implement; spec. †(a) a dagger or pointed sword (obsolete); †(b) a fish-spear (obsolete); (c) regional a pronged eel-spear (cf…

? A dagger. Obsolete.

A short stout edged and pointed weapon, like a small sword, used for thrusting and stabbing.

A short piercing weapon; a dagger. Obsolete.

A dagger or knife with a double-edged blade; = coutel, n.

A dagger. Cf. puncheon, n.1 3. Obsolete. rare.

A dagger, a knife. Obsolete. rare.

A small pointed instrument. A dagger or other pointed weapon. Obsolete. rare.

A small, slim dagger. Now chiefly historical.

Scottish. A dagger; = puncheon, n.1 3. Cf. earlier punch, n.1 2. Obsolete. rare.

A small dagger; a poniard.

A large knife used as a weapon; a dagger.

A dagger designed chiefly as a thrusting weapon: spec. (a) a long dagger formerly carried as a sidearm by men in the Highlands of Scotland…

A short sword; a dagger.

A small sword or dagger. Cf. parazonium, n.

‘A short knife or dagger in use during the Middle Ages’ (Fairholt); a knife. Cf. cuttle, n.2

A knife.

A large knife worn as a weapon. (Frequently used in English in 18th cent.) couteau de chasse (F.): hunting-knife.

= couteau, n.

Chiefly colloquial. A knife or sharp implement, esp. one used for piercing or stabbing as opposed to cutting or slashing.

A type of knife used as a weapon in the Middle Ages. Cf. coutel, n.

Applied contemptuously to a weapon.

A knife.

= chiv, n.3 Also attributive.

A knife, used as a weapon.