tomahawk

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 2 French 2.1 Noun

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Virginian Algonquian tamahaac

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Wikipedia

tomahawk (plural tomahawks)

1. An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
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.

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• blow tomahawks
• tomahawked
• tomahawk improvement
• tomahawk settler

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

1. to strike with a tomahawk

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• tomahawker
• tomahawking

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tomahawk m. (plural tomahawks)

1. tomahawk