What is "creese"

Usage examples of "creese".

They waited only long enough to examine businesslike revolvers and to loosen wavy-bladed creeses in sheaths, then crept into the corridor.

Then Doc picked up the creese, dropped it on the tray of wares and carried the tray as he moved toward Sen Gat's house.

The fact was, that the deck being composed of bamboos, as already described, one of the pirates below had passed his creese through the spaces between them into Prose's body, when he came down on deck in a sitting posture, and had repeated the blow when he failed to recover his feet after the first wound.

The creeses of the pirates had been steeped in the juice of the pine-apple, which, when fresh applied, is considered as a deadly poison.

She had caught up an old Malay creese that lay in a corner, and was now making for the door, at which half a dozen domestics were by this time gathered.

They are fierce and treacherous, and their curved knives (or creeses, as they call them) are sharp and deadly poisoned.

No resistance was now offered, and the Ternates tore down the burning palisades, and forced their way into the intrenchment, and with their scimitars and creeses put to death all who had been so unfortunate as not to take refuge in the citadel.

On the walls, over the doors, on the ceiling, were swords, daggers, Malay creeses, maces, battle-axes.