tomahawk
see also: Tomahawk
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈtɒ.mə.hɔːk/
  • (America) IPA: /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.
Translations
  • French: tomahawk
  • German: Tomahawk
  • Portuguese: tomahawk
  • Russian: томага́вк
  • Spanish: tomahawk
Verb

tomahawk (tomahawks, present participle tomahawking; 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.

Tomahawk
Noun

tomahawk (plural tomahawks)

  1. (military) The BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine.



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