Stiletto

Definitions

1. A small, slender knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.
2. A rapier.
3. An awl.
4. A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).
5. A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
   historical, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“There the cause of death was soon ascertained; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape⟳ like⟳ an antique stiletto, which, I may tell⟳ you, was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.”

“The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.”

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