Hypertext Webster Gateway: "machete"
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) 1.7 (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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