Machete vs Bolo - What's the difference?
machete | bolo | Synonyms |
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick.
To cut or chop with a machete.
To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
A long, heavy, single-edged machete ().
A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide ().
A request for law enforcement officers to B'e '''O'''n the ' Lo okout for a suspect.
Designating a type of punch; an uppercut.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 141:
*:He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
Bolo is a synonym of machete.
As nouns the difference between machete and bolo
is that machete is a sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick while bolo is a long, heavy, single-edged machete (Wikipedia).As verbs the difference between machete and bolo
is that machete is to cut or chop with a machete while bolo is to attack or despatch with a bolo knife.As an acronym BOLO is
an All-Points Bulletin (APB) with information to pick up an individual.machete
English
(wikipedia machete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* boloSee also
* bolo * cleaver * golok (Indonesian) * knife * hatchet * parangVerb
(machet)- After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
- You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.