Daggers, broadly speaking, constitute a broad class of bladed tools that are primarily intended as weapons, for defensive applications. Unlike many other bladed tools, the utility of a dagger is therefore limited, and determined largely by the profile and size of the blade.
That being the case, you can tell a lot about a dagger, and how it is intended to be carried and used, from this alone....
While all daggers are in practice weapons, there is a lot of variation in their designs, and it’s the blade profile (predominantly) that determines how a given pattern was intended to be used, as well as what its relative advantages were.
For instance, some patterns were designed to be thrust, whereas others were more effective at cutting or slashing or turning an enemy’s blade....
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