Tomahawk

Quick meaning: Tomahawk is a noun meaning An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.

Meaning

An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.

More Meanings

1. (basketball) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
2. (transitive) To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
3. (basketball, transitive) To perform a tomahawk dunk.
4. (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.
5. (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.
6. (historical, transitive) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.

Example Sentences

In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and "tomahawked" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin.

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

Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres.

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.

Word Forms

• tomahawks
• tomahawking
• tomahawked

Synonyms for tomahawk

Depending on context, synonyms include hatchet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hatchet, tomax, throwing ax, battle-ax, chop, axemanship.

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