Roundel vs Dagger - What's the difference?
roundel | dagger |
Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
(music) A roundelay or rondelay.
* 1595 , William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream , Act II, Scene II, line 1:
* Sung all the roundel lustily. — Chaucer
A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 26:
(heraldiccharge) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
(aviation) a circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
A bastion of a circular form.
(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 roundel and dagger
is that roundel is anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle while dagger is a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.As a verb dagger is
to pierce with a dagger; to stab.roundel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ... Fairies sing.
- The roundel or rondache derived its name from its circular figure, it was made of oziers boards of light wood, sinews or ropes, covered with leather, plates of metal, or stuck full of nails in concentric circles or other figures.
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.
