tomahawk
IPA: tˈɑmʌhɔk
noun
- An ax used by Native American warriors.
- (basketball) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
- (geometry) A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
- (field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.
- (military) The BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine.
- A place name:
- A rural locality in Dorset council area, north-east Tasmania, Australia.
- A hamlet in Parkland County, Alberta, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A township in Searcy County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Martin County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
- A city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, adjacent to the city.
verb
- To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
- (historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
- (basketball) To perform a tomahawk dunk.
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Examples of "tomahawk" in Sentences
- He murdered a woman with a tomahawk.
- Also known by the trade name Tomahawk.
- And it uses the Tomahawk for that role.
- The description of a tomahawk here is a joke.
- The firing weight of the Tomahawk is booster.
- It is possible to trisect an angle with the tomahawk.
- Those who died by the tomahawk were the most fortunate.
- The tomahawk is a sign of war and victory for his prophet and
- Incidentally, I was the one who disputed the of the Tomahawk missile.
- The school mascot is an Indian with a tomahawk, big nose, and a loincloth.
- He serves either a regular tomahawk service or a backhand tomahawk service.
- Babur is based on Tomahawk tech and like Tomahawk it can be launched from air.
- Throwing the tomahawk was another boyish sport, in which many acquired considerable skill.
- He yanked his tomahawk from the tree where he had hurled it the night before and went off for the day.
- Bounce smoked a tomahawk, which is a small iron hatchet used by most of the Indians of North America as a battle-axe.
- The tomahawk was the great object of attraction, after that the knife, but I think the looking-glass surprised them most.
- The barrel of his piece was riven, his tomahawk was a mere shard of rusted steel, on many of his accoutrements the vapour of fire had passed.
- Tomahawk Creek need not have a direct American origin but indicates the early adoption in Australia of the word tomahawk as the normal word for a hatchet.
- - Samm Levine, Actor ( "I Love You, Beth Cooper," "Inglourious Basterds") @davidspade so avatar was well done but i cant handle the 3d. im an adult, i dont need to feel like the tomahawk is coming at me. i realize its a movie
- The firebrand and the tomahawk were the weapons employed by the Indians to accomplish their purpose of destroying the advancing power of the white man; and so mercilessly did they use these that the outposts of civilization were swept away as by a whirlwind.
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