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curtle-axe

curtle-axe is the obsolete form of cutlass.

Meaning of cutlass

Noun

cutlass (plural cutlasses)

  1. A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
    • She could feel Tern’s stare fixed right between her shoulder blades, and knew he was aching to plunge his cutlass there.2015 September 1, Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows, →ISBN
  2. A similarly shaped tool; a machete.

See all 3 meanings of cutlass

Forms of curtle-axe

pluralcurtle-axes

Questions about curtle-axe

What is curtle-axe the obsolete form of?
Curtle-axe is the obsolete form of cutlass.

Words near curtle-axe in the dictionary

  1. Curtius reaction
  2. Curtius reactions
  3. Curtius rearrangement
  4. Curtius rearrangements
  5. Curtișoara
  6. curtle-axe
  7. curtle-axes
  8. curtly
  9. Curtner
  10. Curtners
  11. curtness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtle-axe (page history and authors); cutlass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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