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machete
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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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation [syn: matchet , panga ]
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.