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Definition of Stiletto
1. Noun. A small dagger with a tapered blade.
Definition of Stiletto
1. n. A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
2. v. t. To stab or kill with a stiletto.
Definition of Stiletto
1. Adjective. Sharp and narrow like a stiletto. ¹
2. Noun. A short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing. ¹
3. Noun. A rapier. ¹
4. Noun. An awl. ¹
5. Noun. A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (stiletto heel). ¹
6. Verb. To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stiletto
1. to stab with a stiletto (a short dagger) [v -ED, -ING, -S or -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stiletto
Literary usage of Stiletto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"In the wise in which u lady's stiletto (Fig. 31)7) Fio. 397. stiletto removed
from female bladder. wa« in the bladder of a young woman I found the point of ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"If he had come to him and sunk his stiletto in his bosom he would have been
merciful to him. He wraps himself, however, in the habiliments of friendship, ..."
3. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"Everybody we questioned upon the subject owned there might be above fifty or sixty.
We tried in vain to buy a stiletto, or what is called from its length a ..."
4. The Life of Robert Fulton and a History of Steam Navigation by Thomas Wallace Knox (1886)
"... Calais-Douvres, and Bessemer—A steamer " nearly all wheel"—The doomed steamer
Meteor—The stiletto. A STEAMER that, has filled numerous pages of history ..."
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