machete, matchet, panga
(noun) a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
machete (plural machetes)
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.
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machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheteing or macheting, simple past and past participle macheted)
To cut or chop with a machete.
To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
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Source: Wiktionary
Ma*che"te, n. Etym: [Sp.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
