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Bridport daggers

Bridport daggers is the plural of Bridport dagger.

Meaning of Bridport dagger

Noun

Bridport dagger (plural Bridport daggers)

  1. (colloquial, obsolete) A hangman's noose.
    • 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".2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 53

Questions about Bridport daggers

What is Bridport daggers the plural of?
Bridport daggers is the plural of Bridport dagger.

Words near Bridport daggers in the dictionary

  1. bridoon rein
  2. bridoon reins
  3. bridoons
  4. Bridport
  5. Bridport dagger
  6. Bridport daggers
  7. Bridstow
  8. Bridwell
  9. Bridwells
  10. brie
  11. brief

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