Tomahawks

Word TOMAHAWKS
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What do we mean by tomahawks?

An ax used by Native American warriors.

A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head.

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.

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.

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The word "tomahawks" in example sentences

I also think that it's quite convenient to keep talking about population and nuclear weapons and other issues where he is quite well-respected and doesn't have the same kind of tomahawks out there waiting for him. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Shawnees an 'the Miamis an' the Wyandots are comin 'on hard, shoutin' the war whoop, swingin 'thar glitterin' tomahawks 'bout thar fierce heads. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Buckley reported about the "tomahawks" of the aborigines of Victoria, that the stone was split into pieces, without regard to their shape, but of convenient thickness. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

The silent figures carried muskets and tomahawks, with ammunition and scalping knives on cords slung from their shoulders; some of them also had cutlasses. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

They fling knives, machetes and tomahawks around a human target during live stage shows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rookie Josh Collmenter has an extreme, straight-over-the-top delivery that he suspects he developed chucking tomahawks as a child. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Port Adams is a salt-water village on Malaita, and Malaita is the most savage island in the Solomons -- so savage that no traders or planters have yet gained a foothold on it; while, from the time of the earliest bêche-de-mer fishers and sandalwood traders down to the latest labor recruiters equipped with automatic rifles and gasolene engines, scores of white adventurers have been passed out by tomahawks and soft-nosed Snider bullets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rest were armed with spears, clubs, bows and arrows, and long-handled tomahawks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Otoo took a flying leap ashore, dug both hands into the trade goods, and scattered tobacco, beads, tomahawks, knives, and calicoes in all directions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the canoes on both sides uprose a glittering, glistening rain of mother-of-pearl-handled tomahawks that descended into the waiting hands of the Somo men on deck, while the Marys on deck crouched down and scrambled out of the fray. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their few precious knives, made from lengths of hoop-iron, and their few and more precious tomahawks from cheap trade hatchets, he had surmised they had captured in war from the bushmen of the jungle beyond the grass lands, and that they, in turn, had similarly gained them from the salt-water men who fringed the coral beaches of the shore and had contact with the occasional white men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was right in the thick of them, so that they could not spear him, while their tomahawks seemed worse than useless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All were armed, some with Snider rifles and ancient horse pistols, others with bows and arrows, with long throwing spears, with war-clubs, and with long-handled tomahawks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A hundred blacks, some few armed with ancient Sniders, but the greater portion armed with tomahawks, fire-hardened spears, and bone-tipped arrows, clustered on the roots that rose out of the bay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The modern rifles, stolen from Lunga, Sheldon set aside; the Sniders he smashed into fragments; the pile of spears, clubs, and tomahawks he presented to Joan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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