cutlass
/ˈkʌtləs
/noun
A short sword with a slightly curved blade, formerly used by sailors.Sailors' cutlasses, when carried on parade, always are hooked up to a belt....
- The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
- Again, that's great stuff for kids - it's pirates, it's pistols, it's cutlasses, it's galleons and sloops and swords.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French coutelas, based on Latin cultellus 'small knife' (see cutler).
The origin of cutlass for a sword with a slightly curved blade, is French coutelas, based on Latin cultellus ‘small knife’, source also of cutlery (Middle English) and coulter (Old English), the cutting blade of a plough.
Rhymes
- hereditivity
- heredity
- Hereford
- Hereford and Worcester
- Herefordshire
- here goes
- herein
- hereinafter
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- hereof
- Herero
- heresiarch
- here's mud in your eye!
- here's to someone/thing
- heresy
- heretic
- heretical
- heretically
- hereto
- here today, gone tomorrow
- heretofore
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- Hereward the Wake