(n.) A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cutlasses, as I learned much later, had been picked up as a job lot in some auction in the 1950s by the ever-canny Great-Uncle Bob.
(2) Characters wield vintage weaponry including derringer pistols and cutlasses.
(3) Called the Jolly Roger, its walls were lined with real cutlasses and its leatherette-bound menus were decorated with compass points and written in an indecipherable copperplate script that made ordering an ice-cream float feel like a hunt for buried treasure.
(4) Actually it also graduates from trees as low as half a metre to the extremely thick areas where human skins cannot penetrate without being hurt by thorns if you do not have a cutlass or something to ward them off.
Saber
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sabre
(v. t.) Alt. of Sabre
Example Sentences:
(1) Si quieres saber más sobre como contribuir en las redes sociales, lee esto .
(2) Of the 60 patients with the saber-sheath configuration, 57 (95%) had clinical evidence of COPD compared to only 18% in the control group.
(3) Our two cases are evidence in support of a close relationship between saber injury-like scleroderma and the Parry-Romberg syndrome.
(4) Saber's account sparked fears that he had either been threatened into silence, or paid off.
(5) There’s a hint of panic in this piece that tries to make sense of Michael Flynn’s saber-rattling at the Islamic republic.
(6) Saber's words were also contradicted by some members of his own family.
(7) This agreement will have to be enforced vigorously, relentlessly.” In a statement later on Tuesday, the former secretary of state offered her endorsement: “I support the agreement because it can help us prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.” Clinton’s main rival for the Democratic ticket, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, was far less calibrated, declaring the deal “a victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling [that] could keep the United States from being drawn into another never-ending war in the Middle East”.
(8) Epithelium and mesenchyme of maxillary processes of chick embryos were separated by a variety of protocols, including those employed in a prior study (Saber et al: Anat.
(9) Bishop was one of four candidates bidding for the position but lost out to Saber Chowdhury, a Bangladesh MP and former political prisoner.
(10) Yet in a bizarre twist, Saber later claimed in an interview from a police hospital that the police had in fact saved him from thieving protesters.
(11) Compartmental models were constructed for both the in situ and isolated neurons, using SABER, a general-purpose simulation program.
(12) The pathogenesis may be varied with different types of collapse of the airway, including the saber sheath type and the crescent type.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer Rafael Barros da Silva, 13, pupil at Saber Viver football school, Recife.
(14) Bishop threw her hat in the ring for the presidency in July 2014, but lost out to Bangladeshi candidate Saber Hossain Chowdhury, who was elected for a three-year term on October 16.
(15) The second patient was a girl who presented with localized scleroderma resembling a saber injury, homolateral cerebral atrophy and contralateral hemiparesis.
(16) In announcing an investigation into the beating of Saber, Morsi's office made clear he was still pointing the blame at the political opponents who have encouraged protests.
(17) "Private media is the chief impediment to the conclusion of the Islamist project as it intentionally smears our image," explained Gamal Saber, a supporter of the Salafi preacher Hazem Abu Ismail.
(18) Comparison of fossil-derived DNA sequences to homologous regions in 15 living carnivorous species, including 9 species of Felidae and 6 nonfelids, affirmed the phylogenetic placement of Smilodon within the modern radiation of Felidae distinct from the Miocene paleofelid (Nimravidae) saber-toothed "cat" species.
(19) The spinal alterations in the saber-toothed cat, which previously were believed to be caused primarily by trauma, showed characteristics of three major pathologic processes: trauma, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, and inflammatory disease of a type similar to ankylosing spondylitis.
(20) A case of Saber-sheath type tracheo-bronchomalacia complicating bronchial asthma was treated by external fixation of Marlex mesh, and good results were obtained.