Editing Dagger (section)

== Daggers in Warfare ==
Most daggers are effectively (Suppose to be) scaled down [[sword]]s, sacrificing reach for light weight and ease of carry and storage. As such, while they can slash, they are mostly used for stabbing. Like swords, both straight and curved as well as double edged and single edged daggers existed.

For the most part, the main use of daggers was as a fallback weapon for soldiers in case they lost their heavier sword, maces, spears or whatever and as a concealed weapon for defensive (if you are fearing a mugging or an assassin) or offensive (you are a mugger or an assassin) purposes. In late medieval a dagger was also the go-to weapon for finishing heavily-armored opponents once you incapacitated them with some other weapon, as a thin and short blade was ideal for shoving through a visor or other gap in the armor. As a nice bonus, they were also small enough to be used as a regular knife for when you have to cut some potatoes for dinner and other such things.

However: That is what a dagger is suppose to be, the exact legal definitions of a dagger are often different and in Europe the difference between dagger and sword was often in the hilt construction. This produced some odd examples of weapons that while they look like 'swords' are 'legally' daggers. The most blatant example being the holder for the guinness world record for longest dagger, which is 91.50 centimeters long, and yet is still considered a dagger. Some non-European examples of this exist as well, such as the Kodachi, which was ''just'' short enough to avoid being a sword.