Cutlass vs Regal - What's the difference?
cutlass | regal |
(nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
Of or having to do with royalty.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= (obsolete, musici) A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
As nouns the difference between cutlass and regal
is that cutlass is a short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship while regal is a small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.As an adjective regal is
of or having to do with royalty.cutlass
English
Noun
(wikipedia cutlass) (es)Synonyms
* cuttoe * hanger * short sabreDerived terms
* (l)regal
English
Alternative forms
* regall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a scorn of his regal oath.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}