dirk
noun
a dagger, especially of the Scottish Highlands.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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I could have walked 100 miles to have dirked him à l’Américaine for his cruelly associating John in the Cockney School, and other blackguardisms.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti