- 1短彎刀（舊時水手、海盜用的）
A cutlass is a short sword with a curved blade. Sailors and pirates carried them in the past. On a crowded ship a long straight sword gets in the way; a shorter, heavier, curved blade is easier to swing in a small space. You meet the word in stories, films, and history, not in ordinary modern life unless someone is joking or dressing up. Though actually, the name does not come from English cut, even though it looks as if it should. It comes from French: Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel, 'knife,' plus -as, an ending that made the thing sound bigger. So the name is really 'a big knife,' which is a fair picture of it.
組成From Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel ('knife') + -as (a suffix that makes it bigger): historically 'a big knife.'
同家族的字
- cutlerysame Old French coutel, 'knife' — the knives and forks on the table, not the pirate sword
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cutlassnoun/ˈkʌtləs/
- 1
nauticaltransportA 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.
- 2
A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
cutlassverb/ˈkʌtləs/
- 1
To cut back (vegetation) with a cutlass.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。