What does machete mean?

Definitions for machete
məˈʃɛt i, -ˈtʃɛt ima·chete

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. machete, matchet, panganoun

    a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

Wiktionary

  1. machetenoun

    A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick.

  2. macheteverb

    To cut or chop with a machete.

    After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

  3. macheteverb

    To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

    You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.

  4. Etymology: From machete, diminutive of macho, from mattea, cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.

ChatGPT

  1. machete

    A machete is a broad blade tool used either as an implement like an axe, or in combat like a short sword. It is often used for cutting through rainforest undergrowth, agricultural tasks, or as a weapon. The blade is typically 12 to 24 inches long and usually under 0.12 inches thick.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Machetenoun

    a large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes

Wikidata

  1. Machete

    The machete is a large cleaver-like knife. The blade is typically 32.5 to 45 centimetres long and usually under 3 millimetres thick. In the Spanish language the word is the diminutive form of the word macho, which means male or strong and was used to refer to sledgehammers. In the English language, an equivalent term is matchet, though it is less commonly known. In the English-speaking Caribbean such as Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada and in Trinidad and Tobago, the term "cutlass" is used for these agricultural tools.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Machete

    ma-chā′tā, n. a heavy knife or cutlass used by the Cubans, &c. [Sp.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. machete

    (Sp.). A large, heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often 2 or 3 feet in length, used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet, to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of machete in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of machete in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of machete in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes):

    There's a compound bow and a machete with a red handle. That's what I'm gonna use to kill you.

  2. Rabbi Shmuel Gancz:

    They are grateful for what they deem a minor injury considering where else the machete could have hit him, such as his eyes.

  3. Rod Hilton:

    I think to a lot of fans, Star Wars is Luke Skywalker story. Unfortunately, the prequels kind of refocused the entire saga on Anakin Skywalker and made it Luke Skywalker story -- which doesn't work as well because Anakin Skywalker's not a sympathetic or engaging character, machete Order includes the bulk of the prequel material... but Luke's position as the narrative center is restored.

  4. Don Sawatzky:

    The number one killer of people with albinism is skin cancer, not machete attacks and muti murders (ritual killings).

  5. Abdullah Faaruuq:

    They say Aafia Saddiqui took up a machine gun while they held Aafia Saddiqui captive in the other room and was ready to attack her captors, what a brave woman she is. And if my mother was in the same place, she would have taken her West Indian machete and cut her way through those kafirs( infidels).

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