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# cutlass

«cutlass» in Mova's school dictionary: **A short sword with a slightly curved blade and one sharp…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cutlass, cutlasses)

### meaning for a pupil

A short sword with a slightly curved blade and one sharp edge, used by sailors and pirates in the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories about pirates and sea battles, a pirate waves a cutlass. In The Wind in the Willows, Ratty lays out weapons for each friend before the battle for Toad Hall; in pirate tales like Treasure Island, cutlasses are everywhere. Real swords are dangerous weapons, not toys.

### examples

- The pirate drew his cutlass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x1)
- Sailors in the navy once carried cutlasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x2)
- The captain held a cutlass in one hand and a lantern in the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x3)
- The museum has an old naval cutlass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x4)
- «Hand over the treasure!» growled the pirate, waving his cutlass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x5)
- A cutlass is shorter than most swords. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x6)
- There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate’s grasp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/#x7)

### note

Plural cutlasses. Similar: sabre, sword, scimitar (strongly curved).

### In the corpora

- [Each animal got «a belt... and then a sword... and then a cutlass on the other side to balance it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cutlass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutlass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.