| Title: | Dagger |
| Original Title: | Dague |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), p. 611 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College] |
| Subject terms: |
Bookbinding
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| Citation (MLA): | "Dagger." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.512>. Trans. of "Dague," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Dagger." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.512 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Dague," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:611 (Paris, 1754). |
Dagger. This is a half-sword inserted at each end in a wooden handle; [1] it is used to scrape the skins, and lift all of the tanner’s dressing. It is called a scraping dagger . See Plate 1 of Binding and figure P. [2]
1. Dudin notes that this is often a sword blade reused by binders. The handle is made instead of leather scraps wrapped around the end of the blade. See René Martin Dudin, The Art of the Bookbinder and Gilder , trans. Richard Macintyre Atkinson (Leeds: The Elmete Press, 1977 [1772]), 47.
2. See instead plate III, figure 18.