cutlass

The Pirates are using a cutlass — think sword — for their celebration.

He had boarded the ship off the Cuban coast and committed the outrage using Jenkins's own cutlass.

He'd swapped his old, flabby shape for that of a lion the size of a rhino, fangs the length of cutlasses, and claws that could tear through tanks as if they were tin.

He hiked 2 kilometers early every morning to retrieve water from a river, wielded hoe and cutlass to tend crops, trekked to Lagos for school, then topped off the day hawking.

The occasional meat came from the wild animals Mr. Brunswijk and his brothers stalked with cutlasses.