Kinda bad taste to toot one’s own horn, but I shall do it anyway. One of the points in my post #73 closed the discussion: a dagger with reinforced point was called Zirah Bouk, mail piercer.
Here is the voice from the past telling us loud and clear that such daggers were manufactured for a particular purpose: penetration of body defence, be it mail or padding.
Katar, a quintessentially stabbing weapon, with identical engineering feature was also created to fulfill the same function.
No amount of intellectual contortions can beat this trump ace.
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