Definitions
kill with a tomahawk
Word origin
From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”).
Used in a sentence
“yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man […] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets.”
“In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and "tomahawked" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin.”
“Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.”
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01“Small ax”8 letters
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