1
: a short curving sword formerly used by sailors on warships
2
: machete
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The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
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Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
In that post, she could be seen dressed in a pirate costume, complete with a large hat, knee-high black boots and a cutlass sword.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
Farmers harvest the ripe yellow pods by hand, and then crack them open with a cutlass, or thick stick.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
Flashes of that larger story do shine through, and the book advances Graeber’s mission: to destabilize our idea of what’s possible and show that humans can, and often do, create egalitarian worlds built on points of consensus instead of the sharp end of a cutlass.
—Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
The pipe’s walls, between 400 and 600 feet long, reach a vertiginous 22 feet, and its edges are cutlass sharp, leaving little to the eye but a cleaved sky.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
One, a nurse once driven from his home by Boko Haram, who lost everything but had found refuge in the estate, has started sleeping with a cutlass under his bed.
—New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
Marse, where the picong sharp like cutlass and cutting politician down to size and making fun of everything that taking itself too serious.
—M Nourbese Philip, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021
The original had a leather-washer handle and a D-ring guard like a cutlass.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Feb. 2019
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“Cutlass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutlass. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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cutlass
noun
cut·lass
ˈkət-ləs 
: a short curved sword
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