A push dagger is a short-bladed dagger with a "T"-shaped handle, designed to be grasped and held in a closed-fist hand, so that the blade protrudes from the front of the fist; either between the index
A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt's Architecture as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side,
Push dagger
…New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans-style push dagger was known as the gimlet knife. The gimlet knife had a short two-inch (50 mm) blade with a "gimlet" or T-handle. It was a common weapon in the city during the 1800s and was usually slipped into a boot or concealed inside a coat sleeve or hung on a…