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Regal vs. Cutlass — What's the Difference?

Regal vs. Cutlass — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Regal and Cutlass

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Regal

Of or relating to a monarch; royal.

Cutlass

A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a common naval weapon during the early Age of Sail.

Regal

Belonging to or befitting a monarch
Regal attire.

Cutlass

A short heavy sword with a curved single-edged blade, once used as a weapon by sailors.

Regal

Magnificent; splendid.
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Cutlass

(Caribbean) A machete.

Regal

Of or relating to royalty.
Regal authority
The regal title

Cutlass

(nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.

Regal

Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.

Cutlass

A similarly shaped tool; a machete.

Regal

Befitting a king, or emperor.

Cutlass

(transitive) To cut back (vegetation) with a cutlass.

Regal

(musical instruments) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.

Cutlass

A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.

Regal

An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called Vox Humana.

Cutlass

A short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors

Regal

Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.
He made a scorn of his regal oath.

Regal

A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, - used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Regal

Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler;
Golden age of imperial splendor
Purple tyrant
Regal attire
Treated with royal acclaim
The royal carriage of a stag's head

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