cutlas
NOUN
sword
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Cutlas was popularly corrupted into curtal-axe, the form used by Rosalind— "A gallant curtal-axe upon my thigh, A boar-spear in my hand."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest