machete

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Drugs, jewellery, and a machete were also found at the properties on Dowry Street, Fitton Hill, on Tuesday.

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  1. noun A large heavy knife with a broad blade, used as a weapon and an implement for cutting vegetation.

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  • Beside him on the six-foot runway that went around the tower were a machete, a Bowie knife, a 6mm Remington bolt-action rifle, a .35 cal Remington, a Luger pistol, and a .357 cal Smith ; Wesson revolver. —  Cat and Mouse
  • Holes were cut into the top of the log with a machete, the nooses slipped through them, and the boars strangled. —  Omni: July 1993
  • The bushy green weeds fell like martyred saints with each swing of the machete, and his hands picked up a film of sticky resin as he threw each plant onto a pile in the corner of the yard. —  The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
  • One of the survivors came at me with a machete, and I killed him with my hands. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • She grabb-ed my arm, led me to a little pile: a cooking pot, bow and arrow, machete, a black plastic bag tied with a string. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
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  1. Spanish, diminutive of macho, sledge hammer, alteration of mazo, club, probably from maza, mallet, from Vulgar Latin *mattea, mace; see mace1.

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  1. Spanish, a chopping-knife, a cutlas.
 

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