dirk
noun
a dagger, especially of the Scottish Highlands.
dirks
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present tense formof dirk (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer was acidic in his dissent: “Laws addressing repeating crossbows, launcegays, dirks, dagges, skeines, stilladers, and other ancient weapons will be of little help to courts confronting modern problems.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Out of his early Georgian property room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks.
From Time Magazine Archive
He spied longswords, dirks and daggers, a brace of throwing axes, mail beneath their cloaks.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Expecting to encounter stalwart Highlanders in kilts, with dirks by their sides, we were disappointed to meet only staid-looking burghers and labouring men, in the ordinary dress of the present day.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
Having returned their dirks to the sheath, they continued to advance towards the crest of the transverse sand-spur, as cautiously as at starting.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
