Cutlass

A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a common naval weapon.

Etymology

The word cutlass developed from a 17th-century English variation of coutelas, a 16th-century French word for a machete-like blade (the modern French for "knife", in general, is "couteau"; the word was often spelled "cuttoe" in 17th and 18th century English). The French word is itself a corruption of the Italian coltellaccio, or "large knife", a short, broad-bladed sabre popular in Italy during the 16th century The word comes from coltello, "knife", derived ultimately from Latin cultellus meaning "small knife."

In the English-speaking Caribbean, the term "cutlass" is used as a word for machete.

History and use

Origin

The cutlass is a 17th-century descendent of the edged short sword exemplified by the medieval falchion.

Woodsmen and soldiers in the 17th and 18th centuries used a similar short and broad backsword called a hanger, or in German a messer, meaning "knife". Often occurring with the full tang more typical of knives than swords in Europe, which is commonly believed to reflect a legal claim to nonweapon status, these blades may ultimately derive through the falchion (facon, falcon) from the seax.

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Two military officers and a driver at the Goaso Divisional Forestry Commission escaped death when dozens of thugs attacked and inflicted cutlass wounds on them in the Abonwire Forest near Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo Region.

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Modern Ghana 05 May 2018

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Kofi Adams Inciting Supporters To Chase Me Out Cutlasses - Alabi

Peace FM Online 01 May 2018

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Flag bearer hopeful of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Joshua Alabi has accused the National Organiser of the NDC, Kofi Adams, of inciting party supporters to chase him out with offensive weapons such as cutlasses.

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Police Looking For 'Cutlasses, Guns, Bombs' In Koku's Phone – Ackumey

Peace FM Online 29 Mar 2018

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