Dirk (disambiguation)
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Dirk may refer to:
- certain types of daggerDaggerA dagger is a fighting knife with a sharp point designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon. The design dates to human prehistory, and daggers have been used throughout human experience to the modern day in close combat confrontations...
:- dirk (Highland dress), traditionally worn in Scotland with the kilt
- the naval dirk
- a given name, short for Theoderic, see Dirk (name)Dirk (name)Dirk is a Dutch and Low German short form of Dietrich.People called Dirk:*Dirk Bogarde, English stage and film star*Dirk Benedict, American actor known from Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team...
- A topping liftTopping liftThe topping lift is a line which is part of the rigging on a sailboat; it applies upward force on a spar or boom. The most common topping lift on a modern sailboat is attached to the boom....
is known as a "dirk" in Dutch, German and Frisian - The Dirk (Кортик), a 1948 children's book by Anatoly RybakovAnatoly RybakovAnatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat tetralogy, novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk, Bronze Bird, etc...