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单词 tomahawk
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
tom•a•hawk /ˈtɑməˌhɔk/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Anthropologya light ax used by American Indians as a weapon or tool.
  2. any similar weapon or implement.

v. [+ object]
  1. to attack, wound, or kill with or as if with a tomahawk.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
tom•a•hawk  (tomə hôk′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a light ax used by the North American Indians as a weapon and tool.
  2. any of various similar weapons or implements.
  3. (in Australia) a stone hatchet used by the Aborigines.

v.t. 
  1. to attack, wound, or kill with or as if with a tomahawk.
  • Virginia Algonquian (English spelling, spelled) tamahaac hatchet (equivalent. to Proto-Algonquian *temah- to cut (it) off + *-a·kan- instrument for)
  • 1605–15
tom a•hawk′er, n. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
tomahawk /ˈtɒməˌhɔːk/ n
  1. a fighting axe, with a stone or later an iron head, used by the North American Indians
Etymology: 17th Century: from Virginia Algonquian tamahaac
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