tomahawk

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From an Algonquian (most likely Powhatan) word. Compare Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, 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

• 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
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: томахавк m

  Roman: tomahavk m

• Slovene: tomahavk (sl)
• Spanish: tomahawk (es) m
• Tok Pisin: tamiok (tpi)
• Ukrainian: томагавк (uk) (tomahavk)

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