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Definition of Cutlasses
1. cutlass [n] - See also: cutlass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutlasses
Literary usage of Cutlasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"Just as the deponent spoke these words he was attacked by two soldiers, with
drawn cutlasses, supposed of the party from Murray's barracks, ..."
2. Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Latham Bradley, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library (1895)
"[cutlasses.] Report of Committee on cutlasses and Cutlass Sword • Minutes of
Evidence taken before the Committee on cutlasses and Cutlass Sword Bayonets ..."
3. Around & about South America: Apéndice al folleto los treinta y tres by Luis Melián Lafinur, Frank Vincent (1897)
"... our steamer carried a stand of muskets and cutlasses in the pilot-house,
precisely as was formerly the custom with vessels exposed to predatory visits ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"LXH. multitude of peasantry assembled for the purpose, while, on their appearance,
they are bayed by dogs, and mangled with cutlasses. The love of dancing, ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1888)
"... the Colonial and Indian Exhibition—Colonial Delegates received at Windsor—Ministerial
Statement as to Defective cutlasses supplied to the Navy—The Duke ..."
6. A Legacy of Historical Gleanings by Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney (1875)
"... the Lower Province, that he said ' we want men and means to go and see Papineau,'
and that a tew pistols, swords, and cutlasses were contributed. ..."
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