List of daggers

The following is a list of notable daggers, either historical or modern. A dagger is a knife with a sharp point designed for fighting.

Ancient daggers

• Acinaces
• 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)
• Push dagger

Asian tradition

African tradition

• Jile
• Billao (Somali)
• 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 (19th-century Chile)
• Gerber Mark II (1967)
• Push dagger
• United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII)
• V-42 stiletto (WWII)
• "Yank" Levy fighting knife

See also

• Types of swords

External links