MACHETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does machete mean? 

• MACHETE (noun)
  The noun MACHETE has 1 sense:

1. a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

  Familiarity information: MACHETE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACHETE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

machete; matchet; panga

Hypernyms ("machete" is a kind of...):

knife (a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point)

 Context examples 

With a few blows from the machetes of our Indians we cleared the spot and were able to study the details of this old tragedy.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)