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Machete

Machete Meaning & Definition
Machete Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Machete?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Machete: matchet | panga

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See Also | knife

Machete In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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