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A push dagger (alternately known as a punch dagger, punch knife, push knife or, less often, a push dirk) is a short-bladed dagger with a "T" handle designed to be grasped and held in a closed-fist hand so that the blade protrudes from the front of the fist, either between the index and middle fingers or between the two central fingers, when the grip and blade are symmetrical.
Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker of knives, multitools, and other tools for outdoors and military headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Gerber is owned by the Finnish outdoors products company Fiskars. Gerber was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber. Gerber is the "largest maker of knives and multi-tools for the United States armed forces."
Military issue or commercial designs, 1918 to present. BC-41 (WWII); Cuchillo De Paracaidista (Argentine Paratroopers); Arkansas toothpick (19th-century US); Facón (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
Fiskars Corporation (natively Fiskars Oyj Abp; formerly Fiskars Oy Ab until 1998) [3] is a Finnish consumer goods company founded in 1649 in Fiskars, a locality now in the town of Raseborg, Finland, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Helsinki. It is one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the world.
The wide, spherical pommel might have assisted by making it easier for the user to push or punch the point of the dagger home. As armour improved, puncturing in such ways was one of the only ways in which the heavy armour of men-at-arms could be breached. Examples also exist of four-edged rondel daggers, the blade having a cruciform profile.
The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife, a modern-day dagger. A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a cutting or thrusting weapon.