cutlass
/ˈkʌtləs
/noun
A short sword with a slightly curved blade, formerly used by sailors.Sailors' cutlasses, when carried on parade, always are hooked up to a belt....
- The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
- Again, that's great stuff for kids - it's pirates, it's pistols, it's cutlasses, it's galleons and sloops and swords.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French coutelas, based on Latin cultellus 'small knife' (see cutler).
The origin of cutlass for a sword with a slightly curved blade, is French coutelas, based on Latin cultellus ‘small knife’, source also of cutlery (Middle English) and coulter (Old English), the cutting blade of a plough.
Rhymes
- till doomsday
- tiller
- tilleul
- tilley lamp
- Tillich, Paul
- tillite
- till (or until) death us do part
- till (or until) kingdom come
- till the cows come home
- tilly lamp
- Tilsit
- tilt
- tilt at windmills
- tilter
- tilth
- tilt hammer
- tilt rotor
- tilt switch
- tilt yard
- Tim.
- Timaru
- timbal
- timbale
- timbale mold
- timbale mould