What is the difference between machete and sword?
machete | sword |
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.
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Sword is a coordinate term of machete.
As nouns the difference between machete and sword
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 sword is a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.As a verb machete
is to cut or chop with a machete.machete
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(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.
sword
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.