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Word entry · 7 letters

machete

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"Heavy cutting blade"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /məˈʃɛ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted aceehmtStarts with MEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (MACHETE).

Definitions

  1. a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

Word origin

From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
  • It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.
  • After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

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