Usually means: Short, curved sword for sailors.
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  1. cutlass: Merriam-Webster
  2. cutlass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cutlass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cutlass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cutlass: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cutlass, cutlass: Wordnik
  7. cutlass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cutlass: Wiktionary
  9. cutlass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cutlass (cutlas): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cutlass: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cutlass, cutlass: Dictionary.com
  13. cutlass: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cutlass (disambiguation), Cutlass (film), Cutlass (short film), Cutlass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cutlass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cutlass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cutlass: Rhymezone
  18. Cutlass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cutlass: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cutlass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Cutlass: The Word Detective
  22. cutlass: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cutlass: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CUTLASS: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cutlass: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cutlass, Cutlass: Latitude Mexico

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▸ noun:  (nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
▸ noun:  A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cut back (vegetation) with a cutlass.

Similar:
cutlass bearing, sword, sabre, shortblade, shortsword, short sword, curtana, sword bayonet, falcata, badelaire, more...

Opposite:
dull, flat, unsharpened.

Phrases:
cutlass fish, cutlass bearing, Vought F7U Cutlass, Oldsmobile Cutlass, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, more...

Adjectives:
great, drawn, old, heavy, large, sharp, rusty, short, long, naked, own


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Similar:
cutlass bearing, sword, sabre, shortblade, shortsword, short sword, curtana, sword bayonet, falcata, badelaire, more...

Opposite:
dull, flat, unsharpened.

Phrases:
cutlass fish, cutlass bearing, Vought F7U Cutlass, Oldsmobile Cutlass, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais, Frankie Cutlass, old cutlass model, cutlass handle, more...

Adjectives:
great, drawn, old, heavy, large, sharp, rusty, short, long, naked, own



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