Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
tomahawk . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tomahawk .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tomahawks.
Examples
-
I also think that it's quite convenient to keep talking about population and nuclear weapons and other issues where he is quite well-respected and doesn't have the same kind of tomahawks out there waiting for him.
Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara 1993
-
Shawnees an 'the Miamis an' the Wyandots are comin 'on hard, shoutin' the war whoop, swingin 'thar glitterin' tomahawks 'bout thar fierce heads.
The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness 1890
-
Buckley reported about the "tomahawks" of the aborigines of Victoria, that the stone was split into pieces, without regard to their shape, but of convenient thickness.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
-
Rookie Josh Collmenter has an extreme, straight-over-the-top delivery that he suspects he developed chucking tomahawks as a child.
-
He was right in the thick of them, so that they could not spear him, while their tomahawks seemed worse than useless.
THE HEATHEN 2010
-
A hundred blacks, some few armed with ancient Sniders, but the greater portion armed with tomahawks, fire-hardened spears, and bone-tipped arrows, clustered on the roots that rose out of the bay.
-
Port Adams is a salt-water village on Malaita, and Malaita is the most savage island in the Solomons -- so savage that no traders or planters have yet gained a foothold on it; while, from the time of the earliest bêche-de-mer fishers and sandalwood traders down to the latest labor recruiters equipped with automatic rifles and gasolene engines, scores of white adventurers have been passed out by tomahawks and soft-nosed Snider bullets.
MAUKI 2010
-
He was right in the thick of them, so that they could not spear him, while their tomahawks seemed worse than useless.
THE HEATHEN 2010
-
From the canoes on both sides uprose a glittering, glistening rain of mother-of-pearl-handled tomahawks that descended into the waiting hands of the Somo men on deck, while the Marys on deck crouched down and scrambled out of the fray.
CHAPTER XI 2010
-
Otoo took a flying leap ashore, dug both hands into the trade goods, and scattered tobacco, beads, tomahawks, knives, and calicoes in all directions.
THE HEATHEN 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.