creese
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Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Inside their clothing each tucked a sharp-edged creese, also a loaded service revolver.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Sicto considered: “If the creese falls without sticking into the ground, I shall choose my route first.”
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
What a neat hand he was, too, with that spiral-bladed Malay creese of his!
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
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