Editing Dagger (section)

===Renaissance and early modern period===
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[[File:Dagger horse head Louvre OA7892 full.jpg|thumb|upright=.5|[[Mughal Empire|Mogul]] dagger known as the [[Khanjar]], [[Louvre]].]]
[[File:Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt MET DP253146.jpg|thumb|left|''Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt'' possibly from the [[Deccan Sultanates]], {{c.|16th century}}, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dagger_with_Zoomorphic_Hilt_MET_DP253146.jpg Metropolitan Museum of Art] ]]

The dagger was very popular as a fencing and personal defense weapon in 17th and 18th century Spain, where it was referred to as the ''daga'' or ''puñal''.<ref>{{cite book |title =Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values |author =Steve Shackleford |publisher =Krause Publications |year=2010 |page=246 |isbn = 978-1-4402-0387-9 }}</ref> During the Renaissance Age the dagger was used as part of everyday dress, and daggers were the only weapon commoners were allowed to carry on their person.<ref>{{cite book |title=Medieval and Renaissance Dagger Combat |author= Jason Vail |publisher= Paladin Press |year= 2006 |page=16 |isbn = 978-1-58160-517-4 }}</ref> In English, the terms ''poniard'' and ''[[dirk]]'' are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling ''dork'', ''durk'' (presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian ''dolk, dolch'', ultimately from a West Slavic ''tulich''), the modern spelling ''dirk'' dating to 18th-century [[Scots language|Scots]].

Beginning in the 17th century, another form of dagger—the [[plug bayonet]] and later the socket [[bayonet]]—was used to convert [[musket]]s and other [[long gun|longarms]] into [[spear]]s by mounting them on the barrel. They were periodically used for eating; the arm was also used for various other tasks such as mending boots, house repairs, and farm jobs. The final function of the dagger was as an obvious and ostentatious means of enhancing a man's apparel, conforming to fashion which dictated that all men carried them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Logan |title=Daggers and Bayonets |url=https://archive.org/details/daggersbayonetsh00thom |url-access=limited |date=1999 |publisher=Spellmount ltd. |location=United Kingdom |page=[https://archive.org/details/daggersbayonetsh00thom/page/n25 22], 23,24 |isbn=9781862270275}}</ref>