creeses

How the pirates had managed to conceal their creeses was a wonder which no one could solve, though the seamen declared that they believed they had kept them hid away inside their throats, for they could not have had them anywhere else.

The Three Midshipmen William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"At Menancabo excellent poniards made, called creeses; best weapons of all the orient.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

Some fought with their creeses, others snatched up muskets and used them vigorously, others, unarmed, flung themselves upon their assailants, biting and tearing like wild beasts.

Cord and Creese James De Mille

A fat ox, that had been promised, was turned loose among the spectators, pursued by fifty savages with their gleaming _creeses_, and hamstrung by a dexterous blow, which threw it bellowing to the earth in the height of its mad career, and tribes of lean curs commenced an indiscriminate engagement over the garbage.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

The men twisted their hair up in gorgeous head-cloths, and the knot bristled with creeses.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

The attack was fierce and vigorous, but as the Malays were not possessed of fire-arms, and made the assault with only their naked creeses, they were easily repulsed.

Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

Of the Bedouins of Eastern Africa it is said that "no whirl-wind ever sweeps across the path without being pursued by a dozen savages with drawn creeses, who stab into the centre of the dusty column in order to drive away the evil spirit that is believed to be riding on the blast."

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Of the Bedouins of Eastern Africa it is said that “no whirl-wind ever sweeps across the path without being pursued by a dozen savages with drawn creeses, who stab into the centre of the dusty column in order to drive away the evil spirit that is believed to be riding on the blast.

Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 4. The Magical Control of the Wind 1922

We forded the bags on the crew's backs across a river with muskets served in case the bloody heathen drew their creeses.

Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Malays and Lascars, half clad in gaudy colors, treacherous and sullen, with a hand ever on their glittering creeses; Englishmen, handy alike with fist, bludgeon, or cutlass, and mightily given to fearful oaths; negroes, Moors, and a few West Indians mixed with the lawless throng.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898