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Definition of Cutlass
1. Noun. A short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors.
Definition of Cutlass
1. n. A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.
Definition of Cutlass
1. Noun. (nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship. ¹
2. Noun. A similarly shaped tool; a machete. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cutlass
1. a short sword [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutlass
Literary usage of Cutlass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... known as the cutlass-fish, scabbard-fish, silver-fish, machete, sable, or
savola, a long, slender, ribbon-like fish found in the West Indies and north ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Scabbard- and cutlass-fishes ... or cutlass-fishes, in which the caudal fin is
wanting, the tail ending in a hair-like filament. ..."
3. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"The deponent went into the street, and desired them to retire to their barracks ;
upon which one of them, with a club in one hand and a cutlass in the other ..."
4. Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Latham Bradley, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library (1895)
"Report of Committee on cutlasses and cutlass Sword • Minutes of Evidence taken
before the Committee on cutlasses and cutlass Sword Bayonets supplied to the ..."
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