Crossword clues for stiletto
stiletto
- Time in toilets, waving a weapon
- Tilt toes to fit this?
- Long dagger
- Heel type named for a dagger
- Type of heel
- Thin-heeled shoe
- Switchblade ancestor
- Puncture tool
- Wedge alternative
- Weapon with an Italian name
- Weapon of some medieval assassins
- Very high heel
- Thin dagger
- Thick-bladed dagger
- Spiky high heel, or a knife with an Italian name
- Small dagger — high heel
- Sharp heel shape
- Pointy heel
- Narrow dagger
- Medieval assassin's weapon
- Long, tapering high heel
- Heel with a high p.s.i
- Hand-to-hand combat weapon
- Footwear that's also a weapon
- Dagger with a narrow blade
- Boot heel, perhaps
- Arch enemy?
- Shoe raiser
- Heel style
- Eyelet maker
- Kind of heel
- Hole puncher
- Eyelet creator
- Short dagger
- Dagger with tapered blade
- Tool for making eyelets
- Part of a dominatrix's outfit
- Certain high heel
- A small dagger with a tapered blade
- Small dagger with a tapered blade
- Robbins book
- Slender dagger
- Needleworker's tool
- What's needed to climb fence going up over the top - have stab at it with this?
- Weapon on fire, launched in fight
- Knife fight about cash register that's short
- Spike heel
- Fight, getting fired up, packing knife
- Local standing with party and community to break hostile type, villain
- Landed, rolling over in fight, producing knife
- High heel; dagger
- High heel
- Dagger; heel
- Dagger that is lethal first of all used in set-to
- Toilet's out of order, blocked by model's 17 across
- Toes tilt awkwardly in this?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stiletto \Sti*let"to\, n.; pl. Stilettos. [It., dim. of stilo a dagger, fr. L. stilus a pointed instrument. See Style for writing, and cf. Stylet.]
A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
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A beard trimmed into a pointed form. [Obs.]
The very quack of fashions, the very he that Wears a stiletto on his chin.
--Ford.
Stiletto \Sti*let"to\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stilettoed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Stilettoing.]
To stab or kill with a stiletto.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "short dagger with a thick blade," from Italian stiletto, diminutive of stilo "dagger," from Latin stilus "pointed writing instrument" (see style (n.)). Stiletto heel first attested 1953.
Wiktionary
Sharp and narrow like a stiletto. n. A short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing. v
To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).
WordNet
n. a small dagger with a tapered blade
[also: stilettoeing]
Wikipedia
A stiletto is a knife or dagger with a long slender blade and needle-like point, primarily intended as a stabbing weapon.
The stiletto blade's narrow cross-section and acuminated tip reduces friction upon entry, allowing the blade to penetrate deeply. Some consider the stiletto a form of dagger, but most stilettos are specialized thrusting weapons not designed for cutting or slashing, even with edged examples. Over time, the term stiletto has been used as a general descriptive term for a variety of knife blades exhibiting a narrow blade with minimal cutting surfaces and a needle-like point, such as the U.S. V-42 stiletto, while in American English usage, the name stiletto can also refer to a switchblade knife with a stiletto- or bayonet-type blade design. The term in plural "stilettos", is also used as slang for a long, thin, high heel ( stiletto heel) for certain boots and shoes, usually for women.
Stiletto is the fourth studio album by rock-musician Lita Ford. It included the singles "Hungry" and "Lisa". The album reached position No. 52 in the US Billboard 200 chart.
Stiletto may refer to:
- Stiletto, a type of dagger
- stitching awl, a tool used in sewing
- Stiletto heel, a type of footwear
- Stiletto snake, a common name for a family of venomous snakes found in Africa and the Middle East
- Stiletto feminism
Stiletto (Tom Stuart) is a fictional character in Marvel Comics.
Stiletto is a 2008 American direct-to-video action film directed by Nick Vallelonga and produced by Nick Vallelonga and Warren Ostergard. It stars Tom Berenger, Michael Biehn, Stana Katic, William Forsythe, and Tom Sizemore. It premiered at Newport Beach International Film Festival on April 28, 2008, and was released on DVD March 3, 2009 by First Look Studios.
Stiletto is a 1969 American crime film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland and Patrick O'Neal. Based on the novel Stiletto (1960) by Harold Robbins.
Stiletto is a 2016 novel by author Daniel O'Malley, the sequel to his The Rook. It was published by Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, in 2016; according to WorldCat, it is in 440 libraries
Usage examples of "stiletto".
Arno when discussing astrophysics, but the man had an uncanny way of getting the stiletto in when the subject shifted.
But even the stiletto of a Bravo is honorable, compared to that sword of pretended justice which St.
Italy the secret stiletto was the weapon of revenge, and the murder of one was avenged by the assassination of another, until the list of expiatory murders ran high, and were carefully counted by each party, each justifying his own, and blaming those of his adversary.
Then she applied some subtle makeup and forced Ana into a brown, strappy chiffon top sprinkled with gold beads that showed her midriff, a pair of very distressed vintage jeans with the waistband ripped off, and pointy-toed alligator-skin stilettos.
The exhibits tallied as follows: A long, thin knife, defined as a Borgia stiletto.
Tossing her head, Allison spun on the stiletto heels and began the slow, hip-grinding walk to the stage.
Cover those distort knobs on your head and buy two bluesteel cork-grip stilettos and offer to pay for them with a bag of sassafras.
In the rarified world of the celebrity anchor, Cheeta Ching was Queen of the Mountain-and determined to grind her stiletto heels into the eyes of the competition.
Bryson lashed out with his left arm, like a cobra, directly toward the blade--a counterintuitive move, because it meant rising up and greeting the instrument of death, or the appendage that held it, rather than retreating from it--and as he seized the wrist of the hand holding the stiletto, the harridan was clearly taken by surprise.
Speeding a quick look toward Quinqual, The Shadow saw the Jibaro whip forth a stiletto.
What first fastened my attention was this vague, unfocussed, roving, quasi-introspective vision flashing with panther-like suddenness into a directness that seemed to burn and pierce one like the thrust of a hot stiletto, His face was clean-shaven, save for a mere thumb-mark of black hair directly under the centre of his lower lip.
On his right foot a black patent leather shoe, with a winklepicker toe and a high stiletto heel.
The massive gunner, Goon, and engineer Yellowbelly circled each other with drawn stilettoes.
Thin poniards and wider daggers, dirks, stilettos, one saber, one scimitar, kukris and katars from India, a skean dhu from Scotland, a short-handled halberd, bayonets, falchions, bowies, yataghans.
The walls of the Dagger Bar were tastefully decorated with daggers, swords, knives, sabers, cutlasses, krisses, poniards, stilettos, rapiers, machetes and dirks, most of them contributed by well-traveled patrons who had brought them home from foreign ports.