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in this period. The Bollock dagger was often used during Shakespeare's time and was only permitted to be carried by men. This dagger was most commonly used as a backup weapon for a
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around 1300–1350, and has one of the longest usage periods of any of the five main types of medieval daggers.
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with a distinctively shaped hilt, with two oval swellings at the guard resembling male testes ("
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This article related to the history of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states is a
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root (dudgeon) in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the dagger was sometimes called a
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Design of a guard for a ballock-dagger with top mount of the scabbard
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In the Victorian period, weapon historians introduced the term
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A set of bollock daggers found on board the 16th century ship
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Shakespeare, William (1884). Rolfe, William James (ed.).
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