Crossword clues for machete
machete
- Teach me to fly a chopper in the jungle?
- Hacker's tool?
- Large knife
- Jungle chopper
- Jungle knife
- Sugar-cane cutting tool
- Cane-cutter's knife
- Bushwhacker's tool
- Underbrush cutter
- Underbrush clearer
- Tool for hackers
- Tool for cutting sugar cane
- Sugar cane knife
- Sugar cane cutting tool
- Large, heavy knife
- Large jungle knife
- Large heavy knife
- Jungle explorer's tool
- Heavy knife used as weapon
- Hacker into a coconut, perhaps
- Cane-cutting tool
- Cane cutter's knife
- Jungle slasher
- Chopper
- Bush whacker
- Cane cutter's tool
- Aid in raising cane?
- Rain forest implement
- Jungle clearer
- Crude coconut opener
- A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- Cuban blade
- Sugar harvester's tool
- Ally holding revolutionary weapon
- Confiscated by club, the awful knife
- Knife from Switzerland, ultimately made in China
- Knife for staff eating the bananas
- Friend carrying revolutionary bladed weapon
- Husband grabbing revolutionary’s weapon
- Large knife and tear gas confines the unruly
- Large heavy knife for cutting vegetation
- Broad heavy knife
- In China, a revolutionary weapon
- The mace deployed as a weapon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
matchet \matchet\ n. a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation; usually called machete.
Syn: machete, panga.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s (in pseudo-Spanish form macheto), from Spanish machete, probably a diminutive of macho "sledge hammer," alteration of mazo "club," which is probably [Barnhart] a dialectal variant of maza "mallet," from Vulgar Latin *mattea "war club" (see mace (n.1)). An alternative explanation traces macho to Latin marculus "a small hammer," diminutive of marcus "hammer," from a base parallel to that of Latin malleus (see mallet).
Wiktionary
n. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick. vb. 1 To cut or chop with a machete. 2 To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A machete (; ) is a large hatchet-like knife. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the Spanish language, the word is a diminutive form of the word macho, which means male or strong and was used to refer to sledgehammers. In the English language, an equivalent term is matchet, though it is less commonly known. In the English-speaking Caribbean, such as Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Grenada and in Trinidad and Tobago, the term " cutlass" is used for these agricultural tools.
Machete is the name of three fictional characters in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Machete is a 2010 American action film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. This film is an expansion of a fake trailer that was included in Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 Grindhouse double-feature. Machete continues the B movie and exploitation style of Grindhouse, and includes some of the footage. The film stars Danny Trejo in his first lead role as the title character, and co-stars Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin and Jeff Fahey. This was Steven Seagal's first theatrical release film in eight years since his starring role in 2002's Half Past Dead. Machete was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox and Rodriguez's company, Troublemaker Studios, on September 3, 2010. A sequel, Machete Kills, was released on October 11, 2013.
Machete is a blade weapon, knife, and sword.
Machete may also refer to:
- Machete (character), aka Isador Cortez, a character portrayed by actor Danny Trejo in multiple Robert Rodriguez films
:* Machete (film), a 2010 film directed by Robert Rodriguez
- Machete (comics), either of three fictional characters from the Marvel Comics Universe
- Machete (1958 film)
- Machete (musical instrument), a small guitar-like instrument
- Machete (TV series), a Philippine TV Series
- Machete (wrestler), a professional wrestler
- Machete Music, a record label
- Juan Carlos Arias Acosta, nicknamed Machete
Machete is a fantasy Philippine drama produced by GMA Network adapted from a character of the same name created by Pablo S. Gomez. Directed by Don Michael Perez, the show premiered on January 24, 2011 replacing Jillian: Namamasko Po on the GMA Telebabad block. The show is broadcast internationally through GMA Pinoy TV on January 26, 2011, two days after its original release. The series is a remake for the movie with the same title which starred Cesar Montano and Rita Avila and was remade again in 1993 which starred Gardo Versoza and Rosanna Roces. The show had its finale on March 18, 2011.
The machete is a small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal. The instrument has four metal strings, in contrast to its slightly larger cousin, the machete de rajão, which has five metal strings. Historians believe the machete was introduced in Madeira as Braguinha from Braga, and it is the immediate predecessor of the ukulele, being introduced to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants in the late 19th century. See also cavaquinho.
Isador Cortez, also known as Machete, is a fictional character in the four Spy Kids films, the Grindhouse fake trailer, and the Machete and Machete Kills films. The character is played by Danny Trejo.
Machete is a 1958 American drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Kurt Neumann and Carroll Young. The film stars Mari Blanchard, Ruth Cains, Albert Dekker, Juano Hernandez, Carlos Rivas and Lee Van Cleef. The film was released in December 1958, by United Artists.
Usage examples of "machete".
She wields a gleaming machete and chops the durian in half, revealing the clean yellow slime of its interior with its fat gleaming pits.
Kates went over to where Dutra was swinging the machete with murderous power.
The plants are incredibly lush and hale and sometimes threaten to block off the whole easement from dining to living room, and the rope-handled Brazilian machete C.
A machete was the weapon of choice with a number of gangland enforcers.
The knifers would come with their deadly machetes, and backing them, Panchez and the men with carbines would complete the mopping-up process.
Kerry was to keep to the middle to encourage laggers and make sure no one wandered off the path Linc would cut with the machete.
Cleggett saw Loge and his followers, machete in hand, flinging themselves at the rail.
As a young mafioso he may have been an adept with a knife, but a machete is more like a sword than i an overgrown knife, and I had the advantage.
His eyes glittered as his hand drew forth a long machete, the knife which Pascual well could wield.
Sam could interrogate Phan further, a scream, very female and long, cut through the jungle like a machete.
Otherwise, we have a machete out in the barn--we hack open bales of hay with it--and scissors and plyers and a leather awl, but a butcher knife .
Pingo remained in front, hacking them down with his machete while Chori poled from the back.
The man with the bloated eye pounced on me and I smashed his arm with the machete and he did not utter a sound, nor did he bleed.
Eaves wakizashi was worn like a machete, and snapped it out of the breakaway scabbard.
The facts are that since Bob Humpty went to Washington, more than 350 million people around the world have died from various causes, including disease, famine, earthquakes, and machete attacks.