CREESE

kris, creese, crease

(noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

creese (plural creeses)

Archaic form of kris.

Verb

creese (third-person singular simple present creeses, present participle creesing, simple past and past participle creesed)

Archaic form of kris.

Source: Wiktionary


Creese (krs), n. Etym: [Malay. kris.]

Definition: A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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