Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cutlass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A corruption of cutlass.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[By folk etymology from earlier coutelace, curtelace, cutlass, from Old French coutelas; see cutlass.]

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