English dictionary
machete
/m/@/'/S//E/t/i/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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.
Source: webster1913