creese

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The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.

From Time Magazine Archive

A magician with a sword—with a great, evil, written-upon creese like that hanging at Black Hill—was here before the palace.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

His weapons were a bolo, a creese, and a bow and arrow.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello

These latter were very remarkable, and resembled in some respects the writhing creese of the Malay.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan