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  • verb Present participle of tomahawk.

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Examples

  • We have proposed to the Shearers 'Union to establish a system of fines for' tomahawking 'sheep, but the union refuses to do anything about it.

    The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

  • There is, for instance, the detail about Tanaghrisson identifying Jumonville before tomahawking him.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There is, for instance, the detail about Tanaghrisson identifying Jumonville before tomahawking him.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There is, for instance, the detail about Tanaghrisson identifying Jumonville before tomahawking him.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There is, for instance, the detail about Tanaghrisson identifying Jumonville before tomahawking him.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Painted in 1847, by Junius Brutus Stearns, this shows colonial American Hannah Duston and her companions actually just one other woman and a fourteen year old boy tomahawking their Abenaki Indian captors--a family of two men, three women, and six children.

    Savages Fresca 2010

  • Painted in 1847, by Junius Brutus Stearns, this shows colonial American Hannah Duston and her companions actually just one other woman and a fourteen year old boy tomahawking their Abenaki Indian captors--a family of two men, three women, and six children.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Fresca 2010

  • What could she do, for he might be tomahawking her in less than no time?

    The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

  • "He would tomahawk me and carry Nellie off," he thought, and it would be hard to say which he thought the worst, the tomahawking or the carrying off of the girl for whom he entertained such a high regard.

    The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Ralph Bonehill

  • Taking advantage of this, our hero, with the speed of a flying arrow, bore down upon the weakest point; where, after shooting down a powerful savage, who had succeeded in grasping his bridle and was on the point of tomahawking his horse, he passed their lines, amid a volley of rifle balls, which cut his clothes in several places, but left himself and steed unharmed.

    Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

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