It is to be noted that the Dagger does not become a regular feature of knightly accoutrement till the middle of the fourteenth century. … A very usual form, both in military and civilian circles, was the Ballok Knife (moderns term it a kidney dagger), a type that persisted till the sixteenth century, and whose modern analogue is the Highland dirk (skean-dhu).

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They may spring from a neglected campfire, kindled for cooking or warming, or from a coalpit where charcoal is being made

See Table 3.2 for a collection of enumerative results related to vincular 3-patterns, as well as for their connections to other combinatorial objects.