From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmachetema‧chet‧e /məˈʃeti, məˈtʃeti/ noun [countable] PMWTZa large knife with a broad heavy blade, used as a weapon or a tool a machete attack
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machete• A postmortem found both women died from multiple injuries caused by a machete.• The bloody gash behind his left ear had been cut with a machete.• Five raiders armed with sawn-off shotguns, rifles and machetes stole more than £10,000 from Dry, part of the Factory empire.• At the north side I saw a man sitting in the field, in the midst of busy machetes.• Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.• At the same instant, Petion hurled the machete at the nearest Secte Rouge guard who also carried a machete.• They lay their machetes down on the side of the road, out of the way.Origin machete (1500-1600) Spanish macho “hammer” 