PMWa short sword with a curved blade, used by sailors or pirates in the past 〔旧时水手或海盗使用的〕短剑,短弯刀
Examples from the Corpus
cutlass• Pangas were the big cutlasses they used for agriculture-and the violent settling of a quarrel.• Some held bloody cutlasses drooping in their hands.• A swarthy fellow with ringlets was taking a slash at her with a heavy cutlass.
Origincutlass
(1500-1600)Frenchcoutelas, from Old Frenchcoutel“knife”, from Latincultellus