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
But they were unarmed, while the alert Mexicans had revolvers in their hands and dirks within instant reach.
From Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Little gay madcaps they were, scarcely well into their teens, with little glittering toasting-forks of dirks dangling at their sides, and ready for any lark or mischief.
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
