dagger-sting

Updated: July 27, 2026

And one saw, too, at a glance that she was different from ordinary wasps would make two, in fact, of any ordinary wasp; and her great jaws looked as if they could eat one and comfortably deal with more; whilst her dagger-sting, now unsheathed and ready probably for the first time could deliver a wound twice as deep and deadly as the ordinary wasp.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild