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cutlass

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A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.

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Trouble comes to the educational psychologist in the shape of a lorry driven by a blue troll armed with a golden cutlass.

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The pictures, one showing Muhammad in bomb-shaped headgear, one with him wielding a cutlass, another saying that paradise was running short of virgins for suicide-bombers, provoked a tumultuous response around the world.

And Jyllands-Posten's cartoons were undeniably strong stuff: one showed Muhammad in a bomb-shaped turban, another depicted him wielding a cutlass and a third had him saying that paradise was running short of virgins for suicide-bombers.

The heavy military sabre (and its counterpart, the naval cutlass) was used in fencing schools until the end of the 19th century, when the Italians introduced a light sabre that was soon accepted universally as a sport weapon.

The main species caught are sea bream, croakers, lizard fish, prawns, cutlass fish, horse mackerel, squids, and flounders; all species, however, are overfished, and the catch of particularly valuable species has declined.

The seams of the blazer would strain with his virility, and the ferrule of his umbrella would somehow suggest the tip of a cutlass or glowing poker.

At first he was full of dastardly Gallic feints, flourishing his backhand like a cutlass.

That movie, in which Hughes, a Rada graduate, inspects a cutlass and remarks: "I say – that's a big one", didn't stretch her dramatic range any more than her other best-known role, as a BA stewardess who could fly without a plane.

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Miles's pig knife was hewed from an automobile spring, double-edged, and looked like a mini-cutlass.

Not cutlass-and-peg-leg pirates; these were of the broadcasting variety (though some swashbuckling was involved).

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