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Definition: Cutlass |
CutlassNoun1. A short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cutlass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Cutlass \Cut"lass\ (k[u^]t"las), noun; plural Cutlasses(-[e^]z). [French coutelas (compare to Italian coltellaccio), augm. from Latin cultellus a small knife, diminutive of culter knife. See Colter, and compare to Curtal ax.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A medium-weight chopping and slashing tool in the form of a large knife set in a short handle(the blade being variable in shape but originally resembling a seaman's cutlass)which is used extensively in bush clearing in tropical countries. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Cutlass is also a type of automobile built by Oldsmobile.
The cutlass is a type of fish.
The USS Cutlass (SS-478) was a US Navy submarine named after the fish, built during World War II and later used by the Republic of China (on Taiwan).
The Cessna Cutlass is a type of light civilian single-engined aircraft. The Vought F7U Cutlass is a type of carrier-based aircraft flown by the US Navy.
CUTLASS is the acronym for the Co-operative UK Twin Auroral Sounding System, a research facility using radar used to study the ionosphere. See CUTLASS home page.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cutlass."
Synonym: CutlassSynonym: cutlas (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cutlass |
| English words defined with "cutlass": Curtelasse, Cutlasses ♦ Sabre fish, Silver eel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cutlass": bush knife ♦ machet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cutlass": Colter. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A cutlass fish. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Underway at sea on 15 July 1957. She was then serving with the Seventh Fleet in the western Pacific. There are seven FJ "Fury", ten F2H "Banshee" (two different models); two F7U "Cutlass", fifteen AD "Skyraider" and three AJ "Savage" aircraft on her flight deck. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Pirate holding pistol and cutlass. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Human Rights | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | In one case, the police reportedly filed charges of assault, stating that the victim had attacked them with a cutlass. (references) |
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| "Cutlass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Cutlass" is used about 9 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 (singular) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cutlass": Cutlass fish. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cutlass": cutlass-wielding. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cutlass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | القطلس سيف قصير ثقيل, السيف المقوس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | къса закривена сабя, мачете (machete). (various references) | |
Chinese | 短箭 (Cutlasses). (various references) | |
Czech | palaš. (various references) | |
Danish | machete (bush knife, machet, machete, matchet, slasher). (various references) | |
Dutch | hartsvanger. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉastranĉilego. (various references) | |
Finnish | viidakkoveitsi (bush knife, machet, machete, slasher), machete (bush knife, machet, machete, slasher). (various references) | |
French | coutelas, machette. (various references) | |
German | Entermesser (cutlasses). (various references) | |
Greek | Κλαδευτήρι(τροπικών περιοχών) (bush knife, machet, machete, slasher), κυνηγετικό μαχαίρι, γιαταγάνι (scimitar, scimiter, simitar, yataghan), ναυτικό σπαθί. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rövid kard. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pedang (sabre, sword). (various references) | |
Italian | machete (machete), arma da taglio. (various references) | |
Manx | cliwe marrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utlasscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cutelo (chopper, cradle, gore, logger, log-man), machado usado nos trópicos para o corte da cana do açúcar (bush knife, machet, machete, slasher). (various references) | |
Romanian | cuţit de abordare. (various references) | |
Russian | тесак (backsword), заостренная мотыга. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kratka sablja (smallsword). (various references) | |
Spanish | machete (bowie knife, machete). (various references) | |
Swedish | kort svärd. (various references) | |
Turkish | pala (broadsword, machete, paddle, scimitar, scimiter, sword), denizci kaması. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cultellus. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | coltellaccio. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cutlass": cutlasses. (additional references) | |
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"Cutlass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Corlass, Coultas, cultellus, cupless, Cushla, cutglass, cutlis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cutlass" (pronounced ku"tlus) |
| 4 | -t l u s | atlas, countless, doubtless, ductless, effortless, flightless, fruitless, guiltless, heartless, limitless, listless, meatless, pilotless, pointless, relentless, restless, rootless, shiftless, spotless, stateless, tasteless, thoughtless, ticketless, warrantless, weightless, witless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, driverless, earless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, frictionless, frivolous, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pitiless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, remorseless, ridiculous, riskless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, stainless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, thankless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, windlass, windowless, wireless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: clasts, cutlas, saults, tussal. | |
-2 letters: ascus, casts, casus, cauls, class, clast, cults, lasts, lusts, salts, sauls, sault, scats, scuta, scuts, slats, sluts, talcs, talus. | |
-3 letters: acts, alts, cast, cats, caul, cult, cuss, cuts, lacs, lass, last, lats, lust, sacs, sals, salt, saul, scat, scut, slat, talc, tass, taus, utas. | |
-4 letters: act, als, alt, ass. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cutlases, masscult, outclass. | |
+2 letters: cassoulet, custumals, cutlasses, masscults, muscatels, osculates, rusticals, simulcast. | |
+3 letters: cassoulets, casualties, consulates, holocausts, maulsticks, ocularists, outclassed, outclasses, secularist, simulcasts, speculates, subcrustal, vasculitis. | |
+4 letters: auscultates, casuistical, causalities, consultants, convulsants, cotylosaurs, curtainless, emasculates, factualisms, factualists, factualness, inosculates, lacklusters, leucoplasts, masculinist, osculations, outclassing, sansculotte, satchelfuls, satchelsful, secularists, simulcasted, speculators, subdialects, supplicants, supplicates, tactfulness, ultrabasics, ultrasonics, vesiculates. | |
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