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Dirk Carried Word Dɜːrk N.短剑;匕首 I Burglar Bank

Front dirk
Pron [dɜːrk]
Back 【dirk】
n.短剑;匕首
I saw a burglar, with a dirk in his bank, getting into the room where she was sleeping.
我看见一个小偷手中拿着匕首,进入她正在睡觉的房间。
Vocab
dirka relatively long dagger with a straight blade

A dirk is a knife that was traditionally carried by Scottish Highland soldiers. A dirk is known as a thrusting or stabbing dagger.

Though it's not common to hear the word dirk these days, the weapon was frequently carried by naval officers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As recently as World War Two, members of the Japanese navy used dirks in hand-to-hand combat. The word is associated with Scotland, although its precise origin is a little murky — it was originally spelled dork or durk, possibly from the Dutch dolk by way of the German dolch, or "dagger."

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