Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short heavy sword with a curved single-edged blade, once used as a weapon by sailors.
- noun Caribbean A machete.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cutlas .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See
curtal ax .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A short
sword with a curved blade, and aconvex edge; once used bysailors whenboarding an enemy ship. - noun A similarly shaped
tool ; amachete .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The cutlass was a clumsy weapon, but sea fighting was hardly a fine art.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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The cutlass was a clumsy weapon, but sea fighting was hardly a fine art.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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A sword hanging on slings could be a hindrance, would strike against obstructions, and the cutlass was a handier weapon for what he contemplated.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's
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National Security information yesterday was that a Tobago diver, assisting in the searches near the murder scene, discovered a cutlass, which is believed to be the murder weapon, as well as a discarded pair of boots, believed to have been worn by the killer, in a nearby lagoon.
TrinidadExpress Today's News with reporting by Elizabeth Allard 2008
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Muscari (with much boyish gratification) buckled on a kind of cutlass under his black cloak.
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Muscari (with much boyish gratification) buckled on a kind of cutlass under his black cloak.
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Africa, we must be careful not to fall into the trap of lowering our democratic guard thus allowing the undemocratic forces, which always will have a hidden 'cutlass', to do what 'Falsehood' did to
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Africa, we must be careful not to fall into the trap of lowering our democratic guard thus allowing the undemocratic forces, which always will have a hidden 'cutlass', to do what 'Falsehood' did to
Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs 2000
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The courier and the young banker carried loaded revolvers, and Muscari (with much boyish gratification) buckled on a kind of cutlass under his black cloak.
john commented on the word cutlass
“The Vought F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a highly unusual, semi-tailless design, allegedly based on aerodynamic data and plans captured from the Arado company at the end of World War II, though Vought designers denied any link to the German research at the time.�? More on Wikipedia.
December 30, 2008