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A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
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panga
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Panga is the common South African name for Pterogymnus laniarius , a small, ocean-dwelling fish , native to the southeast Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean . Alternatively called "torpedo scads ", they are cold-blooded with white flesh. Their scales ...
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n. a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation [syn: machete , matchet ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context East Africa South Africa English) A large broad-bladed knife. Etymology 2 n. 1 Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus ''Pangasius'', native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, (taxlink Pangasius hypophthalmus ...
Usage examples of panga.
Just in case of trouble he unsheathed the eighteen-inch steel blade of his panga, then clambered inside the hearse, feeling it rock on the soft springs, aware of a strange, musty smell, like pepper and dog piss, salt and sugar.
He held the panga tightly in his right hand and pushed back the lid of the coffin with his left.
His right hand dropped to the hilt of the panga, drawing it in a smooth whisper of steel.
He thrust in the general direction of his closest adversary, feeling the familiar, satisfying jar of the panga slicing through flesh then grinding against bone.
He bolstered the blaster and drew the panga, gripping it between his teeth, the steel cold and bitter on his tongue.
He peeled the socks off his pale, puckered feet, carefully unburdening himself of his armory of weapons: rifle, pistol and panga, the hidden slim-bladed flensing knife.
SIG-Sauer P-226 pistol was on his right hip, balanced by the weight of the panga with its eighteen-inch blade on the other hip.
But the panga hit him across the leg, cutting muscle and snapping the femur.
Ryan was kneeling by the body of Jonas Clegg, wiping the blood-slick blade of the panga on its coat.
Ryan reached for his panga, dragging his oar in nearer to the boat and slashing at the loops of the weed.
His panga was the best weapon they had for hacking away at the brown fronds, and he shipped his oar, leaving it to the others to carry on with the rowing.
The hilt of the panga slipped into his fingers and he drew the blade, waving it in front of him in a singing curtain of death.
The gleaming ivory tip of the spear darted at him, but he parried with a ferocious cut of the panga, snapping the spear in half, the point falling to the ice and skittering away.
Quietly he drew his panga and probed at the gap with the long blade, widening the split a little.
Ryan was still holding the long steel panga when someone grabbed him from behind.