Machete vs Kukri - What's the difference?
machete | kukri |
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 curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 171:
*:In the later part of the Second World War it was customary in the French army to vaunt the ferocity of ‘their’ Algerian Tirailleurs against the Germans, much as the British took pride in the deeds performed by the Gurkhas with their terrible kukris .
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 356:
*:Soon, however, the bayonets of the 72nd Highlanders and the kukris of the 2nd Gurkhas began to tell.
As nouns the difference between machete and kukri
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 kukri is a curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters.As a verb machete
is to cut or chop with a machete.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.