machete

A large heavy knife with a broad blade, used as a weapon and an implement for cutting vegetation.

To cut with a machete.

To attack, wound, or kill with a machete.

A heavy knife or cutlass used among Spanish colonists and in Spanish-American countries, both as a tool and as a weapon.

A fish of the family Congrogadidœ, the Congrogadus (or Machœrium) subducens.

Formerly also matchet, matchette.

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.

A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete’s blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick.

To cut or chop with a machete.

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