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 →

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 →
• Sailors in the navy once carried cutlasses. tree →
• The captain held a cutlass in one hand and a lantern in the other. tree →
• The museum has an old naval cutlass. tree →
• «Hand over the treasure!» growled the pirate, waving his cutlass. tree →
• A cutlass is shorter than most swords. tree →
• There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate’s grasp. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cutlass» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.