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tomahawk

About 0.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.
  2. noun A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
  3. noun 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. noun 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.
  5. verb To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
  6. verb To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
  7. verb To perform a tomahawk dunk.

Similar words

hatchet tomahawk chop tomax throwing ax battle-ax throwing axe throwing-ax battle axe meat axe hand axe

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Word family

tomahawked tomahawking tomahawks

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