tomahawk

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From an Algonquian (most likely a Powhatan word); cognate to Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon ("ax"), Abenaki (alni-)demahigan ("ax").

Noun

tomahawk (plural tomahawks)

1. An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 13:

     yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man [...] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets.

2. (basketball): A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head
3. (geometry) A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
4. (field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.

Derived terms

• blow tomahawks
• tomahawked
• tomahawk improvement
• tomahawk settler

Translations

American Indian axe

Bosnian: tomahavk (bs) m. Croatian: tomahavk (hr) m. Czech: tomahavk (cs) Esperanto: tomahoko Finnish: tomahawk (fi) French: tomahawk (fr) m. German: Tomahawk (de) Hebrew: טומהוק (he) Japanese: トマホーク (ja) (tomahōku)

Lithuanian: tomahaukas Russian: томагавк (ru) (tomagávk) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: томахавк m. Roman: tomahavk m. Slovene: tomahavk (sl) Tok Pisin: tamiok (tpi) Ukrainian: томагавк (uk)

in geometry

Verb

tomahawk (third-person singular simple present tomahawks, present participle tomahawking, simple past and past participle tomahawked)

1. to strike with a tomahawk

Derived terms

• tomahawker
• tomahawking

Translations

strike with a tomahawk

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French

Noun

tomahawk m. (plural tomahawks)

1. tomahawk