Rapier vs Dagger - What's the difference?
rapier | dagger |
A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless).
* , act IV scene 1
Extremely sharp.
Cutting smarts or keen wit.
(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 nouns the difference between rapier and dagger
is that rapier is a slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless) while dagger is a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.As an adjective rapier
is extremely sharp.As a verb dagger is
to pierce with a dagger; to stab.rapier
English
(wikipedia rapier)Noun
(en noun)- […] In his lawless fit,
- Behind the arras hearing something stir,
- Whips out his rapier , cries ‘A rat, a rat!’
- And in this brainish apprehension kills
- The unseen good old man.
Adjective
(en adjective)- John is very quick on his feet during interviews by using his rapier responses.
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.