Noun: machete (plural machetes)

1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
2. Synonyms: bolo, sundang
3. 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.
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Verb: machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheting or macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)

1. To cut or chop with a machete.
2. To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

== Français == === Étymologie === Du grec ancien αἴλουρος, aílouros (« chat »), avec le suffixe -onymie. === Nom commun === aeluronymie \a.e.ly.ʁɔ.ni.mi\ ou \a.e.ly.ʁo.ni.mi\ féminin (Linguistique) Étude des noms des chats. Les théoriciens de la linguistique ne sont pas avares de nouvelles catégories onomastiques et n’hésitent pas à baptiser chacun de ces micro-champs d’études : la cynonymie étant l’étude des noms des chiens, l’hipponymie celle des chevaux, l’aeluronymie celle des chats… Ne manque que l’onomonymie : l’étude… des noms propres… — (Pierre-Henri Billy, Dictionnaire des n...

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