machete
IPA: mʌʃˈɛti
noun
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
verb
- To cut or chop with a machete.
- To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
Examples of "machete" in Sentences
- Machete is therefore the best term.
- Unmounted, it handled like a machete.
- This rubbish needs to be reedited with a machete.
- But you are using a machete instead of a scalpel.
- The parang is the Malay equivalent of the machete.
- The third Machete is the brother of the first Machete.
- Athalia was beheaded with a machete in broad daylight.
- He has an cameo in the film adaption of the faux trailer Machete.
- The best I could do is hack out large chunks of underbrush with a machete.
- Jason holds a machete like one should hold a machete and whacks away with it.