CUTLASS  , the See also:

• NAVAL

naval See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side-See also:

• ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm, a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short cutting See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword with a slightly curved blade, and a solid See also:

• BASKET

basket-shaped guard (see SWORD) . The word is derived from the Fr. coutelas, or coutelace, a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of coutel, See also:

• MODERN

modern couteau, a See also:

• KNIFE (0. E. cuff, a word appearing in different forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. knijf, Ger. Kneif, a shoe-maker's knife, Swed. knif; the ultimate origin is unknown; Skeat finds the origin in the root of " nip," formerly " knip "; Fr. canif is a

knife, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. cultellus, diminutive of culter, a ploughshare, or cutting See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument . Two See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations appear in See also:

• ENGLISH

English: " curtelace," where the r represents probably the l of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Latin word, or is a further variant of the second variation; and " curtelaxe," often spelled as two words, "curtal See also:

• AXE (0. Eng. aex; a word common, in different forms, in the Teutonic languages, and akin to the Greek 41v17; the New English Dictionary prefers the spelling " ax ")

axe," where the prefix curial is confused with various English words such as " curtan," " curtal " and " cur-tail," which all mean " shortened," and are derived from the Lat. curtus; the word thus wrongly derived has been supposed to refer to some non-existent form of See also:

• BATTLE

battle-axe . In every See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case the weapon to which these various forms apply is a broad cutting or slashing sword .