Cutlases [noun]

Bothwell, making play with his cutlas against both Blythe and Yeager, was retreating slowly to the bridge rail.

His arm's just as good as a new wooden one, and his repartee is as sharp as the cutlas that broke the skin on it.

"Hot work," said the Englishman coolly, putting down his rifle and taking up a revolver and a cutlas.

"All hands to repel boarders," shouted Morris, and drawing his cutlas he sprang forward, followed by his men.

At the call the boarders gathered, naked to the waist, black with powder and spattered with blood, cutlas and pistol in hand.

Alderson had locked one door and 154 was on guard at the other, cutlas and revolver in hand.

Above him stood Quinn, a ghastly sight, in his hand a streaming cutlas.

With a hideous howl he darted into the hall, his cutlas above his head.

They hurried through the corridors toward the stairway, with Cliff holding the cutlas in readiness.

On the wall still hung the mate of the cutlas he had used to free Vilma; he wrenched it down and ran out into the corridor.