cutlas
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Crest: an arm, embowed, in armour, holding a cutlas, all proper.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
Dolores, agile as a panther, reached the pirate with her cutlas pointed, and the steel hilt rang against his breast-bone.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
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 Aylward Edward Dingle
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 C. Chase Emerson
"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 Aylward Edward Dingle
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