see|Tomahawk

English

Etymology
Virginian Algonquian tamahaac

Noun
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en-noun

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.

Derived terms
blow tomahawks
tomahawked
tomahawk improvement
tomahawk settler

Translations
trans-top|American Indian axe
Bosnian: tomahavk m
Croatian: tomahavk m
Czech: tomahavk
Esperanto: tomahoko
French: tomahawk#French|tomahawk m
German: Tomahawk
Hebrew: �����ק
Japanese: �����
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Lithuanian: tomahaukas
Russian: �омагавк
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �ома�авк m
:Roman: tomahavk m
Slovene: tomahavk
Ukrainian: �омагавк
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trans-top|in geometry
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Verb
en-verb

#to strike with a tomahawk

Derived terms
tomahawker
tomahawking

Translations
trans-top|strike with a tomahawk
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French
Noun
fr-noun|m

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