Bolo vs Dagger - What's the difference?
bolo | dagger |
A long, heavy, single-edged machete ().
A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide ().
A request for law enforcement officers to B'e '''O'''n the ' Lo okout for a suspect.
Designating a type of punch; an uppercut.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 141:
*:He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
(weapon) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
* , Act I, Scene I, line 282.
* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 34.
The text character ; the obelus.
As an acronym bolo
is an all-points bulletin (apb) with information to pick up an individual.As a noun dagger is
(soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with.bolo
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Noun
(en noun)See also
* golok (Indonesian) * machete * parang * tabak (Filipino)Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----dagger
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) dague (1229), related to (etyl), (etyl), (etyl) daga , (etyl) Degen, (etyl) . In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. GrimmGrimmsuspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique'', 1750) thought that French ''dague'' was a derivation from German ''dagge'', ''dagen , although not attested until a much later date). The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca'' in his ''Philippide''. Other Middle Latin forms include ''daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga''http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/DAGGER; the forms with ''-r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word). OED points out that there is also an English verb from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400. Relation to Old Armenian .
Noun
(en noun)- I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; ...
- The dagger , under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.