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machete

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1. machete - Noun

2. machete - Verb

Meaning

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: Webster's dictionary

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A 37-year-old man, Grafton Thomas, was charged with stabbing five people with a machete at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi's home in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. Source: Internet

Aguilar told investigators she helped Robinson dismember Guillen's body using an ax and a machete, removing her limbs and head. Source: Internet

Although a few arrests have been made and the judiciary has even announced it was establishing specialised Mashurugwi courts that would pass harsh sentences to the violent crime gangs, the threats seem to have strengthened the machete gangs, instead. Source: Internet

As Joseph keeps ahead of us hacking occasional branches out of the way with his machete, he points to the various species of flora and fauna that crowd the green, roadless universe we are invading. Source: Internet

” And I ran into the woods with it and I got the machete and I sawed the tape with the machete. Source: Internet

An academy run by veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces has been providing weapons training in Ramapo’s synagogues since the machete attack, The Journal News reports. Source: Internet

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