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单词 cutlass
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cutlassn.

Brit. /ˈkʌtləs/, U.S. /ˈkətləs/
Forms: 1500s coutelace, 1600s coutelas, cuttelas, cuttleass, 1700s cutlace, 1600s– cutlass. Also corruptly β. 1600s cutleax, cuttleaxe, cotellax; γ. 1700s– cutlash.
Etymology: < French coutelas, augmentative of couteau (coutel ) knife; cognate with Italian coltellaccio : Latin type *cultellāceum . The original coutel-as , coutel-ace , has undergone many perversions in English under the influence of popular etymology, which has transformed the first part into cuttle , curtal , curtle , curt , cut , and the second into ax , axe . A later change has made cutlass into cut-lash . The forms cuttle-ax and cut-lash are included here; see curtelace n., curtal-ax n., curtaxe n., in their alphabetical places.
A short sword with a flat wide slightly curved blade, adapted more for cutting than for thrusting; now esp. the sword with which sailors are armed.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > cutlass
curtelace1555
curtal-ax1579
cutlass1594
curtaxe1596
brackmard1653
bolo1901
α.
1594 Kyd Cornelio i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) V. 189 Arm'd with his blood-besmeared keen coute-lace.
1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1333 A Cuttelas verie curiously wrought, and inricht with stone.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 67 The boyes with Cuttleasses, must cut boughes.
1678 tr. L. de Gaya Treat. Arms of War 32 A kind of Cutlass, which they called Cinacis, and in English Cimeter.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 298 A great Cutlash, as the Seamen call it, or Sword.
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. i. 92 With a cutlass to sever the small bush-ropes.
1868 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army ⁋1299 The sailors armed with cutlasses are to proceed to the hatchways.
β. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Coltellaccio, a curtelax or chopping knife.] 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words A cutleax, a hanger. Also a chopping knife, a great knife.1630 J. Taylor Laugh & be Fat in Wks. ii. 79/1 The bloudy cutthroat cuttleaxe of swaggering Mars.1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 310 Either a Cotellax or such like weapon.γ. 1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 779/1 Men arm'd with Cutlashes.1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 87 Of two, his cutlace launch'd the spouting blood.1757 T. Smollett Reprisal ii. viii A good cutlash in my hand.1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cutlas..the small-handed swords supplied to the navy, the cutlash of Jack.

Compounds

cutlass-blade, etc.; cutlass-proof adj.; cutlass-fish n. a name of a species of fish, the Silvery hair-tail, so called from its shape.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Trichiuroidei > [noun] > member of family Trichiuridae (hair-tail) > lepidopus caudatus (scabbard fish)
frost fish1634
garter-fish1774
scale-foot1828
scabbard fish1836
cutlass-fish1884
1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. ii. 26 That he conceiv'd 'twas Cutlace proof.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 300 The Indians constantly require..moscheates, or cutlass blades.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 335 The name ‘Cutlass-fish’, which is current for the same species [sc. Trichiurus lepturus] in the British West Indies.
1963 P. H. Greenwood Norman's Hist. Fishes (ed. 2) ii. 14 At the other extreme are fishes with long bodies, which may be..very much compressed, as in the ..Cutlass-fishes.

Derivatives

ˈcutlass v. to hew with a cutlass.Apparently an isolated use.
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1890 Harper's Mag. Feb. 413/1 He will cutlass his way through forest to the summit of peaks to find particular herbs.
ˈcutlassed adj. furnished with cutlasses.
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1839 Morning Herald 11 July The nucleus of a cutlassed gendarmerie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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