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
- And now 6 years later, his machete is still as sharp.
- Old Tomás warned him, "I may be old, but my machete is young!"
- To them, carving out an eight month old foetus with a machete is much more than an aggravated assault upon the mother, it is an assault upon a second human being.
- They do carry machetes when they go out walking at night or in the campo, but (other than for work) the machete is mainly as protection against dogs or to whack a snake if they happen across one.