Synonyms of cutlass

cutlass

noun

as in rapier

Related Words

• rapier
• scimitar
• saber
• broadsword
• sword
• steel
• smallsword
• blade
• brand

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cutlass

The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds. — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025

The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons. — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024

In that post, she could be seen dressed in a pirate costume, complete with a large hat, knee-high black boots and a cutlass sword. — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024

Farmers harvest the ripe yellow pods by hand, and then crack them open with a cutlass, or thick stick. — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023

The pipe’s walls, between 400 and 600 feet long, reach a vertiginous 22 feet, and its edges are cutlass sharp, leaving little to the eye but a cleaved sky. — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022

One, a nurse once driven from his home by Boko Haram, who lost everything but had found refuge in the estate, has started sleeping with a cutlass under his bed. — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021

Marse, where the picong sharp like cutlass and cutting politician down to size and making fun of everything that taking itself too serious. — M Nourbese Philip, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021