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Creese   Listen
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Creese  n.  (Written also crease and kris)  A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. "From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife."






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"Creese" Quotes from Famous Books



... There is but one frail girl child between him and Lagunitas, with its uncoined millions. He must act. To be deep and subtle as a thieving Greek, to be cold and sneaking as an Apache, to be as murderous as a Malay creeping, creese in hand, over the bulwarks of a merchantman,—all that is to be only himself. ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

... the sigh with which I uttered this desire died upon my lips when Simon, with the aspect of a wild beast, glared at me savagely, and, rushing to the mantelpiece, where some foreign weapons hung on the wall, caught up a Malay creese, and brandished it furiously ...
— The Diamond Lens • Fitz-James O'brien

... half-naked Couli to the well-clothed Chinese in a loose white jacket like a dressing-gown, the Arab merchant in his flowing robes, and the Javanese gentleman in smart jacket and trousers, sash petticoat, curious pent-house-like hat, and strange-handled creese or dagger stuck in his girdle. The view of the country in the morning was, however, much less captivating; it was flat and marshy, and intersected by large ditches. The roads are on dykes four or five feet above ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various



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