Crossword-Solution: CUTLAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

With fierce hurrahs they dashed through the shot-riven smoke and grappled the brig; and the boarders rose, cutlas in hand, ready to spring over the bulwarks.

Bothwell, making play with his cutlas against both Blythe and Yeager, was retreating slowly to the bridge rail.

His whistling cutlas hissed down not an inch from my ear and ripped through the tarpaulin to bury the blade in the wood of the bow.

The following misprints have been corrected: "cutlas" corrected to "cutlass" (page 23) "two" corrected to "too" (page 81) "once" corrected to "one" (page 86) "spilt" corrected to "split" (page 105) Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained.

She's given this cursed frigate a good run for it, anyhow." "Yes she has; the old man has looked black all day, and sworn a little I guess; here he's kept all ready for a fight for the last two days--arm-chests on deck--cutlas-racks at the capstan and for'ard--decks sanded down--and haint got within a long shot yet.