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A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a common naval weapon during the early Age of Sail .
The term 'falchion' may also refer to the early cutlass. The cutlass or curtal-axe also known as a falchion (French badelaire, braquemart, [55] coutelas, [56] malchus; Italian coltellaccio, storta; German messer, [57] dussack, malchus) is a broad-bladed curved hanger or long knife. In later usage, 'cutlass' referred to the short naval boarding ...
A sabre or (American English) saber (/ ˈ s eɪ b ər / SAY-bər) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as the hussars , the sabre became widespread in Western Europe during the Thirty Years' War .
Bronze Age European swords. Harpe: mentioned almost exclusively in Greek mythology; Iron Age European swords. Falcata: one-handed single-edged sword – blade 48–60 cm (19–24 in) – with forward-curving blade for slashing
Cutlass; Krag M1892/98 bayonet; M1860 light cavalry saber; Machete (used mostly by Cuban rebels) Mameluke sword; Sabre; United States Marine Corps noncommissioned officer's sword; Sidearms. Colt M1871/72 Open Top; Colt M1873 Single Action Army; Colt M1877; Colt M1878; Colt M1889; Colt M1892; Colt M1898 New Service; Merwin & Hulbert Pocket Army ...
Saber, slightly curved, single-edged with false edge, made from various carbon steels, modern versions made from stainless steel: Hilt type: Cast-brass hilt, leather-wrapped grip: Scabbard/sheath: Black leather scabbard, two brass mounts, frog stud
A dusack or dussack (also dusägge and variants, [1] from Czech tesák "cleaver; hunting sword", lit. "fang") is a single-edged sword of the cutlass or sabre type, in use as a side arm in Germany and the Habsburg monarchy during the 16th to 17th centuries, [2] as well as a practice weapon based on this weapon used in early modern German fencing ...
J.E.B. Stuart with his 1860 saber. It is shorter, lighter and less curved than the 1840 model 1860 saber. The Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber (also known as the M1862 as this was when the first 80,000 were issued) [1] is a long sword made of steel and brass, used by US cavalry from the American Civil War [2] until the end of the Indian wars; some were still in use during the Spanish–American ...