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/ˈkʌtləs/ · noun
(nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship..
She could feel Tern’s stare fixed right between her shoulder blades, and knew he was aching to plunge his cutlass there.
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not.
Use cutlass when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cutlass means (nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship..
Common synonyms include cuttoe, hanger, cutlas.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She could feel Tern’s stare fixed right between her shoulder blades, and knew he was aching to plunge his cutlass there.
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