cutlas

Example Sentences

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"Whet your tusks, lads, here's the blessed manna!" squealed Caliban, a hunchbacked terror, who kept his maimed carcass secure by virtue of his viperish temper, coupled with an uncanny skill of the cutlas.

From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward

As to this matter, the señor showed him a short, straight, wide-bladed sort of cutlas, which he called a machete.

From Ahead of the Army by Emerson, C. Chase

They hurried through the corridors toward the stairway, with Cliff holding the cutlas in readiness.

From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur

"Your cutlas did it at the pilot-house, sir."

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod

Catching up a cutlas I followed him into the open.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod