Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
machete .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation; usually called
machete .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
machete
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
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Examples
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The plough has not yet reached Pongo-land; the only tools are the erem (little axe for felling), the matchet (a rude cutlass for clearing), the hoe, and a succedaneum for the dibble.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The base of the tree must be well cleared, using the axe or a matchet in order to prevent the saw from blunting too quickly (2).
Chapter 8 1989
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For small poles with thin branches, a matchet can also be used.
Chapter 10 1989
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When the cane is ripe, they proceed to the field, each armed with a _matchet_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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The plough has not yet reached Pongo-land; the only tools are the erem (little axe for felling), the matchet (a rude cutlass for clearing), the hoe, and a succedaneum for the dibble.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Khalifah, and he is watching them and waiting for me to return to him with a couple of frails and a matchet.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The highest levels, only a few feet above water, are grown with a dense bush that wants the matchet.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Such is the case with the great wooded belt north of the Gold Coast, where even the second-growth becomes impenetrable without the matchet, and where the swamps and muds, bred and fed by torrential rains, bar the transit of travellers.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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His Personal Assistant, Femi Ekundayo, was not spared as he received several matchet cuts on his head and back.
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(ix) The following implements: matchet, sickle, fork and an irrigation can.
Chapter 7 1992
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