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"Heavy cutting blade"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (MACHETE).
Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Heavy cutting blade”7 letters
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