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Webster 1913 Edition
Machete
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Ma-che′te
(mȧ-shĕt′ē̍; Sp. mȧ-chā′tā̍)
, Noun.
[Sp.]
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.
J. Stevens.
Syn. – matchet.