machete
muh she tee
- n a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- In another, he vanquishes a phalanx of machete-wielding skinheads with his bare hands.
- THE AMERICAS Europe is BackTo test a machete, a Colombian campesino sticks the point into a wooden floor and bends the bladedouble.
- From the countryside at week's end, came reports of machete-wielding Bahutus chopping down scores of Watutsis and burning villages.