curtle-axe

English

Noun

curtle-axe (plural curtle-axes)

  1. Obsolete form of cutlass.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
      Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare,
      This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe
      Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], lines 564–568, page [189], column 2:
      That I did ſuite me all points like a man,
      A gallant curtelax vpon my thigh,
      A bore‑ſpeare in my hand, and in my heart
      Lye there what hidden womans feare there will,
      Weele haue a ſwaſhing and a marſhall outſide, […]
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