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語源

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.

発音

• IPA: /məˈʃɛ.ti/, /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/

名詞

machete (plural machetes)

1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

   Hypernym: knife (sometimes construed as coordinate)

   Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 384:

     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.

2. 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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動詞

machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)

1. (transitive) 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.

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