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dirk

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1. dirk - Noun

2. dirk - Adjective

3. dirk - Verb

4. Dirk - Proper noun

Meaning

Dark.

A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.

To darken.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. Douglas Adams

Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl? Clive Cussler

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. Clive Cussler

When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened. Douglas Adams

It is richt facil and eith gait, I the tell, Forto discend and pas on down to hell: The blak gettis of Pluto, and that dirk way, Standis evir oppin and patent nycht and day; Bot tharfra to return agane on hyght, And heir abufe recovir this aris licht, That is difficil wark, thar lawbour lyis. Gavin Douglas

Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it. Scottish Proverb

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