Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.tomahawk

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
  2. (basketball): A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head.
  3. (geometry) A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
  4. (field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.

Verb

  1. To strike with a tomahawk.

Exempel

  • yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man [...] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets.
  • Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticiptomahawked
Imperfekttomahawked
Presensparticiptomahawking
Pluraltomahawks
Tredje person singular indicativ presenstomahawks

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