curtaxe

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A form of curtal-axe — A short, broad sword.

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Meanings

nouncurtaxe (plural curtaxes)

plural curtaxes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of curtal-axe: a cutlass.

    With curtaxe vsed Diamond to smite, / And Triamond to handle speare and shield, / But speare and curtaxe both vsd Priamond in field.

    Diamond habitually fought using a cutlass, and Triamond using a spear and shield, but Priamond habitually used both spear and cutlass on the field [of battle].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42
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