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n. A large heavy knife with a broad blade, used as a weapon and an implement for cutting vegetation.

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.

v. To cut or chop with a machete.

v. To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

n. A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.

n. A heavy knife or cutlass used among Spanish colonists and in Spanish-American countries, both as a tool and as a weapon.

n. A fish of the family Congrogadidœ, the Congrogadus (or Machœrium) subducens.

n. Formerly also matchet, matchette.

n. a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

"Old Tomás warned him, "I may be old, but my machete is young!""

knife   

cleaver    parang    bolo    golok    knife    hatchet   

matchet    bolo   

scimitar    crowbar    sabre    panga    hatchet    ax    pickaxe    hoe    dagger    cutlass