machete
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- //məˈʃɛ.ti//
- //məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti//
- //məˈt͡ʃɛ.teɪ//
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
nom
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A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.
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A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
Étymologie
From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.
verbe
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To cut or chop with a machete.
After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
Formes
- pluriel
- machetes
- passé
- macheted
- participe passé
- macheted
- participe présent
- macheteing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- machetes
machete · A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
machine · A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form…machinery · The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant…macho · Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way. Very…