cutlas

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.