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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 .
A depiction of a Royal Navy rating with cutlass in a boarding action. Ratings of the Royal Navy have used cutlasses, short, wide bladed swords, since the early 18th century. These were originally of non-uniform design but the 1804 Pattern, the first Navy-issue standard cutlass, was introduced at the start of the 19th century.
My understanding has been that the cutlass is a shorter, broader-bladed weapon then the saber, so as to avoid being entangled during shipboard fights. Longer, more regularly curved swords used for cutting and slashing tend to be termed sabers, while shorter, 'broader' blades for cutting tend to be termed either cutlasses or falchions.
Model 1852 swords produced before and during the American Civil War had a blade approximately 1 inch wide and were slightly curved. By 1870 the blade width was reduced to about 3/4 of an inch and in the early 20th century the swords were made straight. Both swords are manufactured by WKC Stahl und Metallwarenfabrik. [5]
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 ...
Some militaries also issue ceremonial swords to their highest-ranking non-commissioned officers; this is seen as an honour since, typically, non-commissioned, enlisted/other-rank military service members are instead issued a cutlass blade rather than a sabre. Swords in the modern military are no longer used as weapons, and serve only ornamental ...
The Leadcutter sword or lead cutter is a type of broad, heavy, specialist English sword or cutlass. [1] Popular in the 19th century, these weapons resemble an enlarged naval cutlass, consisting of single-edged, flatbacked blades with broad widths, often flexible and sometimes slightly curved, always with a full cutlass-type hilt. [ 2 ]
The type of sword also saw widespread use across Europe and America, though the term 'spadroon' is unique to the Anglophone world. Spadroon is a term used to categorize a type of sword that is in between a small sword (which thrusts only) and the heavier-bladed broadsword. They may have single- or double-edged blades, and hilt types ranging ...