Definition of "machete" []

• A large heavy knife with a broad blade, used as a weapon and an implement for cutting vegetation. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Old Tomás warned him, "I may be old, but my machete is young!""
• "And now 6 years later, his machete is still as sharp."
• "To them, carving out an eight month old foetus with a machete is much more than an aggravated assault upon the mother, it is an assault upon a second human being."