bolo

• They were directly above a small, walled garden the Patels used for meditation, with a bolo-statue of Krishna in a niche surrounded by flowers. —  EBSCOhost
• That was a bad night for me; I remember only one worse, and that was during the last Philippine War, when I turned in feeling absolutely certain we should all be boloed before the morning, and boloed we should have been—a bolo is an ugly two-feet-long knife—had not two big dugouts full of American infantry chanced to come up the river just before midnight. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
• The regiment was in the trenches in a moment and remained there till dawn The first light of day revealed, lying in a great pool of his own blood, "Big Bill," the bull buffalo that drew the headquarters water-cart, who had been out grazing that night AN ENCOUNTER WITH BOLOMEN A True Narrative of a Personal Experience in the Philippines By a Lieutenant of Infantry The organized bands of Filipinos known as bolomen are so called because their principal weapon is the long, broad-bladed, vicious-looking knife called the bolo, with which they do their deadly work. —  Bamboo Tales
• The Tagalo or Pampango fights with the bolo, the Moro often with the creese, and with all these brown-skinned men the game is the same--to leap up unexpectedly, from the tall grass, before the soldier has had time to throw himself on his guard A swift, short-armed cutting movement--a mere slash, delivered with muscular effort, and the soldier is gashed across the abdomen. —  Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros
• His weapons were a bolo, a creese, and a bow and arrow. —  The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old

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