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Stiletto relative
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dirk
Alternative clues for the word dirk
Word definitions for dirk in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dirk \Dirk\, a. [See Dark , a.] Dark. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, perhaps from Dirk , the proper name, which was used in Scandinavian for "a picklock." But the earliest spellings were dork , durk (Johnson, 1755, seems to be responsible for the modern spelling), and the earliest association is with Highlanders, ...
Usage examples of dirk.
For Bap, Bern and Dirk, this difference did not seem to matter greatly.
Over kilts and loose shirts, all wore knee-long mail hauberks, belted at the hips with thick leather bands sporting huge buckles of brass or polished steel from which depended a sword of some descriptioneverything from native short swords and brass-hilted boarding cutlasses to European and Middle Eastern military brandsat least one each of dirk and dagger and one or more pistols, metal flasks of powder and cour bouilli boxes for lead balls and spanners.
The dagger at his hip was a border dirk set with a water-pale cairngorm in the pommel, like sunlight on peat in a highland stream.
Dirk drew a bottle from his saddlebag and came up to Coll, pouring some of the fluid onto a square of cloth.
Dirk wiped his shoulder, and Coll gasped with pain, then set his teeth, determined not to cry out.
Dirk and Gar made, Coll saw how quickly they were learning about the land.
Dirk was so flummoxed to find that he had actually physically hit the person he was supposed to be stealthily tailing that in order to allay any suspicion he jumped onto a passing bus and headed off down Rosebery Avenue.
As the Gombe Stream Chimps initiated a tumbling exhibition, Dirk Akuj pushed back his chair and made a tactful half bow.
These two automobiles took up the trail of the cab which carried Luskin and Dirk Halgan.
Dirk ordered, hoping that young Muni had managed to get the field working.
In the same year four brothers died in the pestilence, namely, Brother Arnold Droem, a Convert, Goswin Witte, a Clerk and Oblate, Dirk Mastebroick, a Donate, Hermann Sutor, a Novice.
As the representative of the United States district attorney, who is too ill to conduct this prosecution, it is my duty to prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that that man who is seated over there, that man known as Roger Pawling, is guilty of the deliberate, horrible murders of Captain Caleb Dawn and First Officer Dirk Morton.
This plume and plaid no more will see, Nor philabeg, nor dirk at knee, Nor even the broadswords which Dundee Bade flash at Killiecrankie.
More than that, Vendible had instructed Dirk Bardo to use the same tactics.
Within that car were the two whom The Shadow wanted: Richard Vendible and Dirk Bardo.