Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bum-dagger
subs. phr. (old).—A large dagger formerly worn at the side, as bayonets were later.
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1636. SAMPSON, Vow Breaker. Two thousand hardy Scots, with glaved blades, BUM-DAGGERS, and white kerchers, such as will fight and face the fiery French.
