Dagger Small 98×320 Medium 196×640 Large 314×1024 Download Tiff Original 735×2400 | (185.8 KB) Description An edged and pointed weapon for thrusting, shorter than a sword, and used, commonly in connection with the rapier, by swordsmen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Keywords dag, dager, knife Galleries Swords and Daggers Source: William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881)