cutlass

• n. 弯刀；短剑

来自拉丁词culter, 刀，来自PIE*skel, 砍，劈，词源同cleave, scale. -ass, 大词后缀，见largess. 拼写受cut影响俗化。

1. a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors

cutlass

cutlass: [16] Appropriate as the name sounds, cutlass has no etymological connection with cut. It comes from Old French cutelas, a derivative (denoting large size) of coutel ‘knife’. This in turn goes back to Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter ‘knife, ploughshare’ (source of English coulter [OE] and cutler [14], whence cutlery [14]).
=> coulter, cutlery

cutlass (n.)

1590s, from Middle French coutelas (16c.), probably from Italian coltellaccio "large knife" (with augmentative suffix -accio), from coltello "knife," from Latin cultellus "small knife," diminutive of culter "knife, plowshare," from PIE *kel-tro-, from root *(s)kel- "to cut" (see scale (n.1)).

Cutlass and corselet of steel, and his trusty sword of Damascus.

钢刀,盔甲, 和他素来倚重的大马士革利剑.

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There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate's grasp.

经过激烈的搏斗, 海盗斯塔奇手中的弯刀被打掉了.

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He sits with a drawn cutlass.

他现在坐在那里时,面前总是放着一把出鞘的弯刀.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

At the same time , observing Gray to be unarmed, I handed him my cutlass.

突然, 我发现格雷没有武器, 便把我的弯刀给了他.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

Meanwhile a third pirate appeared suddenly in the doorway, and fell with his cutlass the doctor.

这时,第三个海盗突然出现在门口, 举着他的腰刀扑向医生.

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Let me just find my silver cutlass, and fill my stomach!

让我找到我的银短刀, 填饱我的肚子就好!

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