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
Even Pearse fell under the spell of fierce action; his rapier played among the heavier strokes of cutlas and broad-knife like summer lightning.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward
On the wall still hung the mate of the cutlas he had used to free Vilma; he wrenched it down and ran out into the corridor.
From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur
They hurried through the corridors toward the stairway, with Cliff holding the cutlas in readiness.
From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur
