What does bridport dagger mean?

bridport dagger

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

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Colloquial; Obsolete

"Bradshaw has a welcome habit of lobbing in the odd bit of local folklore, and he excels here with "He was stabbed with a Bridport dagger was an old saying for a man that was hung"."

Bridport daggers (plural)

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