List of daggers
List of daggers:
Early daggers
Western tradition
- High Middle Ages
- Late Middle Ages
- Bollock dagger, Rondel dagger, Ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape)
- Baselard (14th-century long cutting dagger)
- Renaissance
- Cinquedea (broad short sword)
- Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th)
- Misericorde (weapon)
- Modern
- Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
- Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany)
- Dirk (Scotland)
- Sgian-dubh (Scotland)
- Arkansas Toothpick (19th-century US)
- Puñal (Spain, Latin America)
- Corvo (19th-century Chile)
- Facón (19th-century Latin America)
- Trench knife (WWI)
Eastern tradition
- Balisong (Filipino)
- Baladaw (Filipino)
- Bich'hwa (Indian)
- Hachiwara
- Jambiya
- Kaiken
- Kalis
- Kard
- Katar
- Khanjar
- Khanjali
- Qama
- Kris
- Kukri
- Pesh kabz
- Phurba
- Punyal
- Shbreyh
- Shuckra
- Tantō
- Yoroi toshi
Africa
Contemporary
Military issue or commercial designs, 1918 to present.
- BC-41 (WWII)
- Cuchillo De Paracaidista (Argentine Paratroopers)
- Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
- Gerber Mark II (1967)
- Push dagger
- United States Marine Raider Stiletto (WWII)
- V-42 Stiletto (WWII)
- "Yank" Levy fighting knife
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