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Definition: CUTLASSES |
CUTLASSESPlural1. Of Cutlass |
Date "CUTLASSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Crosswords: CUTLASSES |
| English words defined with "CUTLASSES": Edge play. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Line engraving, after a sketch by George Watters, published in "Harper's Weekly", 10 December 1864, page 789, depicting a Sunday morning inspection aboard the ship. Crewmen are paraded with cutlasses beside one of the gunboat's 100-pounder Parrott rifled guns. Note hoisting arrangements in the hatch at left, possibly to supply ammunition to the gun, officers standing at right and hammocks stowed in the hammock rails. Credit: NAVY. |  | With its crew at their stations, on board a U.S. Navy gunboat during the Civil War. Photographed by Matthew Brady. Note anti-boarding netting; ship's wheel at left; cartridge boxes, cutlasses and revolvers worn by some men; gun-handling equipment and Marine by the rear of the gun. Many sources incorrectly identify this ship as USS Mendota (1864-1867), which did not have a gun of this type in the location seen. It is possible that the ship is USS Miami (1862-1865), which did carry IX-inch guns at the extreme bow and stern. See Photo #s NH 46255 and NH 60873 for views of Miami showing similar details. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CUTLASSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CUTLASSES" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CUTLASSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 短箭 (Cutlass). (various references) | ||||
German | Entermesser (cutlass). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | utlassescay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cutlases. | |
-2 letters: caestus, castles, classes, clauses, cuestas, cutlass, salutes, sulcate, taluses, tassels, tussles. | |
-3 letters: acutes, assets, castes, castle, caules, causes, cestas, cestus, clasts, clause, cleats, cuesta, culets, cusses, cutlas, eclats, lasses, leasts, salute, sauces, saults, sautes, scales, scutes, slates, stales, stases, steals, tassel, tasses, teslas, tussal, tusses, tussle. | |
-4 letters: acute, alecs, ascus, asses, asset. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cassoulets, outclasses. | |
+2 letters: secularists. | |
+3 letters: sansculottes, sensualistic. | |
+4 letters: factualnesses, subspecialist, substanceless, tactfulnesses. | |
+5 letters: subadolescents, subspecialists, subspecialties, watchfulnesses. | |
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