Cutlass Definition

kutləs
cutlasses
noun
cutlasses
A short, thick, curving sword with a single cutting edge, formerly used esp. by sailors.
Webster's New World
A machete.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Cutlass

Noun

Singular:
cutlass
Plural:
cutlasses

Origin of Cutlass

  • French coutelas from Old French coutelasse probably augmentative of coutel knife from Latin cultellus diminutive of culter knife skel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel (“knife”) + -as (augmentative suffix)

    From Wiktionary

Cutlass Sentence Examples

  • Out ahead the new cutlass sufficiently intense do was not his.

  • Cutlass - Cutlass was a short film that earned praise from movie critics.

  • Picked up by one of the more notorious pirate ships, Connor soon finds himself wielding a cutlass.

  • Although he wore a cutlass, and had used it that day with tremendous effect, he did not now draw it.

  • But matters went otherwise than he had expected; when he waxed unmannerly, and unsheathed his dagger to strike one of the royal retinue who had dared to answer him back, the mayor of London, William Walworth, drew his cutlass and cut him down.

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