Tomahawk

Etymology
Virginian Algonquian tamahaac

Noun

 * 1) An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
 * 2) *1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 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.
 * : A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  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

 * blow tomahawks
 * tomahawked
 * tomahawk improvement
 * tomahawk settler

Translations

 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: tomahoko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: טומהוק
 * Japanese: トマホーク


 * Lithuanian: tomahaukas
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: томахавк
 * Roman: tomahavk
 * Slovene:
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Ukrainian:

Verb

 * 1) to strike with a tomahawk

Derived terms

 * tomahawker
 * tomahawking

Noun

 * 1) tomahawk

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