A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
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Examples for "machete"
Examples for "machete"
1The kin had reportedly brought several weapons with him, including a machete.
2In 2002, machete-wielding landowners scuppered plans for a new Mexico City airport.
3Then, machete in hand, he looked over the edge of the pyramid.
4Maria is working now in the sugar cane fields wielding a machete.
5Simply nods and holsters his pistols, slings a machete across his back.
154.-CARCHARIAS(PRIONODON) MELANOPTERUS, Muller and Henle.-Nativename, MATCHET.
2The return of the Krumen repeats the spectacles of Sinou, and war being here chronic, the canoe-men come off armed with guns, swords, and matchets.
1A lot of good a panga would do, she thought privately.
2Dawie Roodt got attacked with a panga and robbed in his own home.
3The man with his panga then started taking pictures of him, Tshabalala explained.
4A struggle followed and the farmer was hacked to death with a panga.
5Margaret noted that the guide had his panga out.
6One panga and an air rifle were found deserted.
7While the complainant was eating, an unknown male armed with a panga, entered her room.
8The suspects, who were armed with a panga and hammer, allegedly attacked the two security guards.
9He took a guard's panga and cut some poles, then tied his own shirt between them.
10For context, you're more likely to be killed by a panga than murdered on a farm.
11Each carried a spear or a panga.
12The man then reached for the panga.
13He sliced me with his panga.
14When a fierce exchange of words boiled over, the man behind the wheel threatened his adversary with a panga.
15Every home in Mozambique has a panga or two, as it is used for various tasks in and around the home.
16The only provocation we suffered was from the attacks of the tsetse, or panga (sword) fly, which swarmed here.