Dolk

'nDolkis 'n tipe tweesnydende mes wat mense vroeër dikwels by hul gedra het vir selfbeskerming.^[1]^[2]Dolke is tydens maaltye ook gebruik om vleis mee te sny. Die gebruik van 'n dolk aan tafel het egter tot 'n einde gekom nadat die Franse kardinaalRichelieudie gebruik daarvan aan tafel verbied het. Die gewone tafelmes is in plek daarvan bekendgestel en sedertdien gebruik.

By die dolk lê die punt van die lem in die verlengde as van die hef van die mes. Die lem is dus simmetries, in teenstelling met 'n gewone mes. Die wapen word gebruik om te steek, te stoot of as sekondêre verdedigingswapen in nabye konfrontasies. Dit is teenswoordig egter 'n wapen wat selde gebruik word.

Net soos die strydbyl is die dolk ontwikkel uitprehistoriesegereedskap. Dolke is oorspronklik vanvuursteen,ivoorofbeengemaak. Dit word al sedert die vroegste tye van die menslike beskawing as wapen gebruik. Die eerste dolke het in dieBronstydperkin die 3de millenniumv.C.verskyn. Dieswaardis ontwikkel uit groter dolke, omdat 'n dolk se reikafstand te klein was om effektief te wees teen byle,lanse,piekeen goedendagte ('n tipe wapen wat veral tydens dieSlag van die Goue Sporemet welslae gebruik is).

In Suid-Afrika is die destydse Eerste Minister,Hendrik Verwoerd,op 6 September 1966 in dieVolksraaddeurDemetrios Tsafendas,'n parlementsbode, met 'n dolk doodgesteek.

Dolke vervul in verskeie kulture 'n simboliese funksie, soos byvoorbeeld die Kirpan uit dieSikhisme,wat die draer aan die stryd om regverdigheid en teen onderdrukking moet herinner.

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↑State v. Martin, 633 S.W.2d 80 (Mo. 1982): This is the dictionary or popular-use definition of a dagger, which has been used to describe everything from an ice pick to a folding knife with pointed blade as a 'dagger'. The Missouri Supreme Court used the popular definition of 'dagger' found in Webster's New Universal Dictionary ( "a short weapon with a sharp point used for stabbing" ) to rule that an ordinary pointed knife with four-to-five inch blade constitutes a 'dagger' under the Missouri criminal code.
↑California Penal Code 12020(a)(24): "dagger" means aknife or other instrumentwith or without a handguard that iscapable of ready use as a stabbing weaponthat may inflict great bodily injury or death. The State of California and other jurisdictions have seized upon the popular-use definition of a dagger to classify items ranging from a pointed kitchen knife to a tent stake as a 'dagger' under the law.

[MAR-1] State v. Martin, 633 S.W.2d 80 (Mo. 1982): This is the dictionary or popular-use definition of a dagger, which has been used to describe everything from an ice pick to a folding knife with pointed blade as a 'dagger'. The Missouri Supreme Court used the popular definition of 'dagger' found in Webster's New Universal Dictionary ( "a short weapon with a sharp point used for stabbing" ) to rule that an ordinary pointed knife with four-to-five inch blade constitutes a 'dagger' under the Missouri criminal code.

[CAL-2] California Penal Code 12020(a)(24): "dagger" means aknife or other instrumentwith or without a handguard that iscapable of ready use as a stabbing weaponthat may inflict great bodily injury or death. The State of California and other jurisdictions have seized upon the popular-use definition of a dagger to classify items ranging from a pointed kitchen knife to a tent stake as a 'dagger' under the law.

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