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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 671 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NAVAL

naval See also:

side-See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm, a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short cutting See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword with a slightly curved blade, and a solid See also:

BASKET

basket-shaped guard (see SWORD). The word is derived from the Fr. coutelas, or coutelace, a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of coutel, See also:

MODERN

modern couteau, a See also:

KNIFE (0. E. cuff, a word appearing in different forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. knijf, Ger. Kneif, a shoe-maker's knife, Swed. knif; the ultimate origin is unknown; Skeat finds the origin in the root of " nip," formerly " knip "; Fr. canif is a

knife, from See also:

LAT

Lat. cultellus, diminutive of culter, a ploughshare, or cutting See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument. Two See also:

variations appear in See also:

ENGLISH

English: " curtelace," where the r represents probably the l of the See also:

ORIGINAL

original Latin word, or is a further variant of the second variation; and " curtelaxe," often spelled as two words, "curtal See also:

AXE (0. Eng. aex; a word common, in different forms, in the Teutonic languages, and akin to the Greek 41v17; the New English Dictionary prefers the spelling " ax ")

axe," where the prefix curial is confused with various English words such as " curtan," " curtal " and " cur-tail," which all mean " shortened," and are derived from the Lat. curtus; the word thus wrongly derived has been supposed to refer to some non-existent form of See also:

BATTLE

battle-axe. In every See also:

case the weapon to which these various forms apply is a broad cutting or slashing sword.

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