cutlass
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkʌtləs/
cutlass (plural cutlasses)
- (nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
- She could feel Tern’s stare fixed right between her shoulder blades, and knew he was aching to plunge his cutlass there.
- A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
- cuttoe
- hanger
- short sabre
- French: sabre d'abordage
- German: Entermesser
- Portuguese: alfanje, cutelo
- Russian: са́бля
- Spanish: sable
cutlass (cutlasses, present participle cutlassing; past and past participle cutlassed)
- (transitive) To cut back (vegetation) with a cutlass.
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