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Creese

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of kris.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Archaic form of kris.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To kill by stabbing with a creese (which see).

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

Word Usage

""running amuck," so frequent in all other Malay countries, has never taken place, and with a population of 30,000 Malays, all of whom carry their "creese" and revenge an insult by a stab, murders do not occur more than once in five or six years."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sticker dagger

Variant

crease kris

Same Context

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