Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dagger having an ornamental hilt of wood; hence, a dagger of any sort, but especially one carried by a civilian, and not a weapon of war.
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Examples
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A belt round his waist served at once to sustain the broad-sword which we have already mentioned, and to hold five or six arrows and bird-bolts, which were stuck into it on the right side, along with a large knife hilted with buck-horn, or, as it was then called, a dudgeon-dagger.
The Monastery 2008
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Spaniard — a book at his girdle, and a broad dudgeon-dagger on the other side, to show him half-pedant, half-bully.
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--- Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and just force open his teeth with the haft of thy dudgeon-dagger. ''
The Talisman 1894
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A belt round his waist served at once to sustain the broad-sword which we have already mentioned, and to hold five or six arrows and bird-bolts, which were stuck into it on the right side, along with a large knife hilted with buck-horn, or, as it was then called, a dudgeon-dagger.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and just force open his teeth with the haft of thy dudgeon-dagger.”
The Talisman 2008
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Bid me give him three inches of my dudgeon-dagger, and I will do it much more willingly than present him with thy packet.”
Woodstock 1855
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-- Bid me give him three inches of my dudgeon-dagger, and I will do it much more willingly than present him with thy packet. "
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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