Types of daggers
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Template:Short description 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
European tradition
- High Middle Ages
- 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
- Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th)
- Modern
- Template:Ill (Caucasus and Russia)
- Dirk (Scotland)
- Hunting dagger (Germany, 18th-century)
- Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
- Sgian-dubh (Scotland)
- Trench knife (WWI)
- Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (Britain, WWII)
- Push dagger
Asian tradition
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African tradition
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
- Mark I trench knife (WWI)
- M3 trench knife (WWII)
- United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII)
- V-42 stiletto (WWII)
- Applegate–Fairbairn fighting knife (WWII)
- M4 bayonet (WWII)
- "Yank" Levy fighting knife
- SOG Knife (Vietnam War era)
- M7 bayonet (Vietnam War era)