I no zero on this area, but according to Blackmore's 'Hunting Weapons from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century', a civilian dagger of the late Middle Ages known as a 'hauswehr' was the evolution (and demise) of the scramasax, developing a broader blade and of narrower cross-section, with edge curved to meet the back at the point. The older scramasax pointed tang was replaced with a strip tang to which two plates of wood, bone, ivory, etc, were riveted. An example of this evolution is shown from a 1476 manuscript. It stands to reason that with the demise of the form, the term also lost popularity. So, Fernando and you are both right-
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