Dagger facts for kids

Neolithic dagger

Modern Winchester Riot Dagger and sheath

A dagger is a knife which is used to stab people. It has a double-edged blade, so it cannot be used for normal cutting like a knife.

Daggers are small, so they can often be hidden under the attacker's clothing and then suddenly produced.

They were also used in the Middle Ages for the infantry armies to defend or attack their opponents.

Some people like Julius Caesar were assassinated with a dagger.

Images for kids

The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife, a modern-day dagger
Pre-Roman Iberian iron dagger forged between the middle of the 5th century BC and the 3rd century BC
Bronze Age swords, Kurdistan, museum of Sanandaj
Iberian triangular iron dagger
Relief of akinakes, a type of ancient dagger, worn by an Achaemenid guard in Persepolis
Depiction of combat with the dagger (degen) in Hans Talhoffer (1467)
Modern reproductions of medieval daggers. From left to right: Ballock dagger, Rondel dagger, and a Quillon dagger
Mughal dagger, Louvre
20th-century daggers
Buster Warenski dagger