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machete


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Machete  \Ma*che"te\,  n.  [Sp.] 
  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.  --J.  Stevens. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  machete 
  n  :  a  large  heavy  knife  used  in  Central  and  South  America  as  a 
  weapon  or  for  cutting  vegetation  [syn:  {matchet},  {panga}] 




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