Definitions for Tomahawk

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Tomahawk tom·a·hawk

Spelling: [tom-uh-hawk]

IPA: /ˈtɒm əˌhɔk/

Tomahawk is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in Tomahawk (aahkmotw).

Definitions for Tomahawk

noun

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.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack, wound, or kill with or as if with a tomahawk.

Origin of Tomahawk

1605-15; Virginia Algonquian (E spelling) tamahaac hatchet (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *temah- to cut (it) off + *-a·kan- instrument for)

Examples for Tomahawk

With my tomahawk I cut a mark in that chestnut yonder and buried my weapon at the foot of it.

I leave the tomahawk and knife to such as have a natural gift to use them.

Or what America was doing with its tomahawk missile strikes that frequently ended up killing civilians.

I didn't have my tomahawk, and I didn't know what would happen.

The Indian lifted his tomahawk and the lad expected it to be buried in his head.

Oh, how I understood now the rascally-looking fellow, with his hatchet and tomahawk!

You see people in war paint or doing the tomahawk chop and saying, “Scalp him.”

You say you're willing to bury the tomahawk; do you mean it?

The USS Arleigh Burke, a destroyer, and USS Philippine Sea, a cruiser, launched a total of 47 tomahawk missiles.

Brown supporters at one rally mocked her with tomahawk chops and war cries.