Noun: cutlass
| Singular | cutlass |
| Plural | cutlasses |
Sample Sentences
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She could feel Tern’s stare fixed right between her shoulder blades, and knew he was aching to plunge his cutlass there. [2015 September 1, Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows, →ISBN:]
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In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like cutlass
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel (“knife”) + -as (augmentative suffix).
Verbs referencing "cutlass"
Spanish Nouns
cuchillo.