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The kukri, khukri, and kukkri spellings are of Indian English origin. [3] [better source needed] The kukri is the national weapon of Nepal, traditionally serving the role of a basic utility knife for the Nepali-speaking Gurkhas, [4] and consequently is a characteristic weapon of the Nepali Army. [4]
The Romans regarded the sica as a distinctive Illyrian weapon. The principal melee weapon of the Illyrians was the Sica. [6] According to historian John Wilkes: [7] Although a short curved sword was used by several peoples around the Mediterranean the Romans regarded the sica as a distinct Illyrian weapon used by the stealthy 'assassin' (sicarius)
Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) Modern. Bebut (Caucasus and Russia) Dirk (Scotland) Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing) Sgian-dubh (Scotland) Trench knife (WWI) Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (British Armed Forces, WW2) Push dagger
The katar was created in Southern India, [4] its earliest forms being closely associated with the 14th-century Vijayanagara Empire. [2] It may have originated with the mustika, a method of holding a dagger between the middle and index finger [5] still used in kalaripayattu and gatka today.
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.
CANTON ‒ A Canton police officer fatally shot a 24-year-old man while investigating a report of a person with a gun on Tuesday, Police Chief John Gabbard said in a press release.
In 1986 Scott & Fetzer was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway of Omaha, NE, an insurance holding company and the Quikut and Ginsu brand knife production moved to a new plant in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas in 1972. [20] In 2013, Consumer Reports reviewed the Ginsu Chikara knife set in their comparison of fifty knife sets and rated it as their "Best Buy."
Thus in Arkansas, a state in which knife fights using large, lengthy blades such as the Bowie and Arkansas toothpick were once commonplace, [102] [121] a state statute made it illegal for someone to "carry a knife as a weapon", [122] specifying that any knife with a blade 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) or longer constituted prima facie evidence that the ...