What is "cutlasses"

Usage examples of "cutlasses".

Their cutlasses were drawn and the smoke of their matchlocks blued the air, trailing out across the surface of the water.

The cutlasses were of good Sheffield steel, with plain wooden hilts and basket guards.

We still have some hard fighting ahead of us, and cripples are of no use to me when the culver ins are smoking and the cutlasses are out.

Under Ned Tyler's instruction they shaped them with the cutlasses, although Hal hated to see the fine steel edges dulled and chipped.

A hum of fury and wild cries of outrage went up from their midst, but there was no officer to give the order, and though they drew their cutlasses, yet instinctively they hesitated and hung back.

Working in the cahdle's feeble light, they tied the cutlasses into bundles of ten, then stacked them at the entrance.

Big Daniel chuckled, as he ran his hands over a bundle of cutlasses then examined them in the moonlight.

Hal made only one detour to cache the two kegs of powder, a bundle of slow-match, and three cutlasses in the cave of the rock paintings.

They piled into her the bundles of cutlasses and the chest filled with loaded pistols.

Big Daniel had brought up a bundle of cutlasses, and both Wally Finch and Stan Sparrow carried others.

Aunt Gertrude went on, "but they insist that we present the cutlasses to the museum at the state capitol.

The detour leads past the Entwistle place where the cutlasses came from.

At the end of it stood the case of six cutlasses from the Entwistle estate.

As Joe beamed it down the steps, Frank lifted the case of cutlasses to his shoulder.

The case of cutlasses fell from his shoulder and landed with a jangling crash.