tomahawk

See also: Tomahawk

English

Etymology

From an (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  (most likely (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Powhatan) word. Compare Virginia Algonquin tumahák, Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒ.mə.hɔːk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/

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 (published in Richmond in 1957), page 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

Derived terms

• blow tomahawks
• tomahawked

• tomahawk improvement
• tomahawk settler
• tomahawk steak

Translations

American Indian axe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印第安戰斧／印第安战斧 (yìndì'ān zhànfǔ), 印第安战斧 (Yìndì'ān zhànfǔ), 戰斧／战斧 (zhànfǔ), 战斧 (zhànfǔ)

• Czech: tomahavk (cs)
• Esperanto: tomahoko
• Finnish: tomahawk
• French: tomahawk (fr) m
• German: Tomahawk (de)
• Hebrew: טומהוק m
• Japanese: トマホーク (tomahōku)
• Korean: 토마호크 (tomahokeu)
• Lithuanian: tomahaukas
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• Maori: pīauau
• Portuguese: tomahawk m
• Russian: томага́вк (ru) m (tomagávk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: томахавк m

  Roman: tomahavk (sh) m

• Slovene: tomahavk (sl)
• Spanish: tomahawk m
• Tok Pisin: tamiok
• Ukrainian: томага́вк m (tomahávk)

in geometry

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Verb

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

1. To strike with a tomahawk.
   • 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:

     Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.

Derived terms

• tomahawker
• tomahawking

Translations

strike with a tomahawk

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.ma.ok/

Noun

tomahawk m (plural tomahawks)

1. tomahawk

Further reading

• “tomahawk”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

tomahawk m (plural s)

1. tomahawk (type of American Indian axe)