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cut⋅lass

  [kuht-luhs]
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–noun
a short, heavy, slightly curved sword with a single cutting edge, formerly used by sailors.
Also, cutlas.

Origin:
1585–95; earlier coutelace < MF coutelas, equiv. to coutel knife (F couteau) (< L cultellus; see cultellus ) + -as aug. suffix; c. It coltellaccio big knife; cf. curtalax
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cut·lass also cut·las   (kŭt'ləs)   
n.  

  1. A short heavy sword with a curved single-edged blade, once used as a weapon by sailors.

  2. Caribbean A machete.


[French coutelas, from Old French coutelasse, probably augmentative of coutel, knife, from Latin cultellus, diminutive of culter, knife; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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cutlass 
1594, from M.Fr. coutelas, probably from It. coltellaccio "large knife," from coltello "knife," from L. cultellus "small knife," dim. of culter "knife, plowshare."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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