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the short, brutal sword that made pirates terrifying in tight quarters and tighter spaces.
means A short, broad, slightly curved sword with a single cutting edge, historically favored by sailors and pirates for close-quarters fighting.
from From the French 'coutelas,' meaning a large cutting blade, which traces back through Italian 'coltellaccio' to the Latin 'cultellus,' a 'little knife' (diminutive of 'culter,' a knife or plowshare). So the fearsome pirate blade is, by name, a humble overgrown kitchen knife — a cousin of the everyday 'cutlery' in your drawer.
- Built short
- Stubby blade swings free in cramped ship rigging
- Navy issue
- US Navy kept cutlasses until 1949
- Double duty
- Heavy enough to hack rope and bone
- Name roots
- From Latin cultellus, meaning little knife
- Curved edge
- Slashing beats stabbing in a chaotic boarding melee
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