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curtal ax

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Historical Winds
Moeck cornamuse, cornetto, crumhorn dulcian/curtal,rackett,rauschpfeife
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cur⋅tal⋅ax

  [kur-tl-aks]
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–noun Archaic.
cutlass.
Also, curtal ax, curtle ax.

Origin:
1570–80; var. (by folk etym.) of earlier curtilace, appar. < dial. It cortelazo, assimilated var. of It coltellaccio hunting knife, equiv. to coltell(o) (< L; see cultellus ) + -accio n. suffix. See cutlass
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Historical Winds
Moeck cornamuse, cornetto, crumhorn dulcian/curtal,rackett,rauschpfeife
www.LazarsEarlyMusic.com
curtal ax  
n.   Archaic
A cutlass.

[By folk etymology from earlier coutelace, curtelace, cutlass, from Old French coutelas; see cutlass.]
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