"tomahawk" meaning in English

See tomahawk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/ [US], /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/ [US], /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tomahawk.wav Forms: tomahawks [plural]
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|alg-eas}} Eastern Algonquian, {{bor|en|pim|tumahák}} Powhatan tumahák, {{cog|pqm|tomhikon|t=ax}} Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), {{cog|abe|temahigan}} Abenaki temahigan Head templates: {{en-noun}} tomahawk (plural tomahawks)
  1. An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler. Synonyms: hatchet
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  2. (basketball) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head. Categories (topical): Basketball
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  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. Categories (topical): Geometry
    Sense id: en-tomahawk-en-noun-en:geometry Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 11 28 11 4 7 8 Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
  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. Categories (topical): Field hockey
    Sense id: en-tomahawk-en-noun-PBqHszIS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 11 28 11 4 7 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (American Indian axe): kanistarahí (Arikara), томаха́вка (tomahávka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tȯhoo'o (Cheyenne), 印第安戰斧 (Chinese Mandarin), 印第安战斧 (Yìndì'ān zhànfǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 戰斧 (Chinese Mandarin), 战斧 (zhànfǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), iskifushi (Choctaw), iilúxxiiwaatchipe (Crow), tomahavk [masculine] (Czech), tomahoko (Esperanto), tomahawk (Finnish), tomahawk [masculine] (French), ტომაჰავკი (ṭomahavḳi) (Georgian), Tomahawk [masculine] (German), טומהוק [masculine] (Hebrew), टोमाहॉक (ṭomāhŏk) [masculine] (Hindi), तोमाहॉक (tomāhŏk) [masculine] (Hindi), tomahawk [masculine] (Italian), トマホーク (tomahōku) (Japanese), 토마호크 (tomahokeu) (Korean), čhaŋȟpí (Lakota), tomahaukas (Lithuanian), томаха́вка (tomahávka) [feminine] (Macedonian), tomhikon (Maliseet-Passamaquoddy), pīauau (Maori), टॉमाहॉक (ṭŏmāhŏk) (Marathi), pucuswvce (Muscogee), atkulé·ki (Oneida), waagaakdoons (Ottawa), tomahawk [masculine] (Polish), tomahawk [masculine] (Portuguese), томага́вк (tomagávk) [masculine] (Russian), gají:wa’ (Seneca), томахавк [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tomahavk [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tomahavk [masculine] (Slovak), tomahavk (Slovene), tomahawk [masculine] (Spanish), tamiok (Tok Pisin), yaruhtohku (Tunica), томага́вк (tomahávk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), tëmahikàn (Unami)
Derived forms: blow tomahawks, pipe tomahawk, Tomahawk, tomahawk chop, tomahawked, tomahawk improvement, tomahawk mark, tomahawk settler, tomahawk steak, Uncle Tomahawk, tomahawker Disambiguation of 'American Indian axe': 52 1 44 3

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/ [US], /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/ [US], /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tomahawk.wav Forms: tomahawks [present, singular, third-person], tomahawking [participle, present], tomahawked [participle, past], tomahawked [past]
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|alg-eas}} Eastern Algonquian, {{bor|en|pim|tumahák}} Powhatan tumahák, {{cog|pqm|tomhikon|t=ax}} Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), {{cog|abe|temahigan}} Abenaki temahigan Head templates: {{en-verb}} tomahawk (third-person singular simple present tomahawks, present participle tomahawking, simple past and past participle tomahawked)
  1. To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
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  2. (historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it. Tags: historical
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  3. (basketball) To perform a tomahawk dunk. Categories (topical): Basketball
    Sense id: en-tomahawk-en-verb-m0lu~th8 Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Derived forms: tomahawker, tomahawking

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "ari",
      "lang": "Arikara",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "kanistarahí"
    },
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "томаха́вка"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "chy",
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tȯhoo'o"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "印第安戰斧"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Yìndì'ān zhànfǔ",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "印第安战斧"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "戰斧"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhànfǔ",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "战斧"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "cho",
      "lang": "Choctaw",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "iskifushi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "cro",
      "lang": "Crow",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "iilúxxiiwaatchipe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahavk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "unm",
      "lang": "Unami",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tëmahikàn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomahoko"
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    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṭomahavḳi",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "ტომაჰავკი"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "טומהוק"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ṭomāhŏk",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "टोमाहॉक"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "tomāhŏk",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "तोमाहॉक"
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "トマホーク"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tomahokeu",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "토마호크"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
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      "lang": "Lakota",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "čhaŋȟpí"
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      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomahaukas"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tomahávka",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "томаха́вка"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "xpq",
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomhikon"
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    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "pīauau"
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ṭŏmāhŏk",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "टॉमाहॉक"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "mus",
      "lang": "Muscogee",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "pucuswvce"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "one",
      "lang": "Oneida",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "atkulé·ki"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "oda",
      "lang": "Ottawa",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "waagaakdoons"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahawk"
    },
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      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tomagávk",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "томага́вк"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "see",
      "lang": "Seneca",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "gají:wa’"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "томахавк"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahavk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahavk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomahavk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "tpi",
      "lang": "Tok Pisin",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tamiok"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "tun",
      "lang": "Tunica",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "yaruhtohku"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 1 44 3",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tomahávk",
      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "томага́вк"
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 296:",
          "text": "In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and \"tomahawked\" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin.",
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          "ref": "1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906",
          "text": "Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance."
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          "ref": "1909, Samuel Gordon Smyth, A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military, Church and Family Records and Documents, page 67:",
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          "ref": "1915, Chronicles of the Cochrans: Being a Series of Historical Events and Narratives, in which Members of this Family Have Played a Prominent Part, page 55:",
          "text": "Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, H. Austin Cooper, Two Centuries of Brothersvalley Church of the Brethren, 1762-1962: An Account of the Old Colonial Church, the Stony Creek German Baptist Church and the Area of Bruedersthal in which the Brethren Settled in the Summer of 1762, and Organized by Elder George Adam Martin, Presiding Elder:",
          "text": "The Germans thought that by just tomahawking a claim and living on it, it was an \"improvement\" and that was sufficient for claim; but not so with the Land Office. The land had to be legally registered and taxes paid on it […]",
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          "ref": "2011, Don Corbly, Pastor John Corbly and his neighbors in Greene Township, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:",
          "text": "They tomahawked the land they settled on and were joined by other settlers. Each settler picked out the piece of land that he or, in some instances, she desired which resulted in oddly shaped plats when they were later surveyed.",
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        "(historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it."
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          "ref": "2007, Bob Dyer, The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports, page 237:",
          "text": "When the league held its first slam-dunk contest in 1984 in Denver, Nance, then a Phoenix Sun, soared into the rafters with a basketball in each hand and tomahawked each one through the net before floating back to earth […]",
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    "Terms with Cheyenne translations",
    "Terms with Choctaw translations",
    "Terms with Creek translations",
    "Terms with Crow translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Lakota translations",
    "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Marathi translations",
    "Terms with Mohegan-Pequot translations",
    "Terms with Odut translations",
    "Terms with Oneida translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Seneca translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Tok Pisin translations",
    "Terms with Tunica translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Unami translations"
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    {
      "word": "blow tomahawks"
    },
    {
      "word": "pipe tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "word": "Tomahawk"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawk chop"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawked"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawker"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawk improvement"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawk mark"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawk settler"
    },
    {
      "word": "tomahawk steak"
    },
    {
      "word": "Uncle Tomahawk"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 13:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 178:",
          "text": "At first, her presence was not observed; but, no sooner did the stranger catch a glimpse of her person, than he stopped, raised his hands in surprise, laid his rifle against a tree, and sprang forward; the girl closing her eyes, and sinking on the seat, with bowed head, expecting the blow of the deadly tomahawk.",
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "印第安戰斧"
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "印第安战斧"
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      "word": "戰斧"
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "战斧"
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      "word": "iilúxxiiwaatchipe"
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      "word": "tomahavk"
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tëmahikàn"
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomahoko"
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      "word": "tomahawk"
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      "word": "ტომაჰავკი"
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Tomahawk"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "トマホーク"
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      "word": "टॉमाहॉक"
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      "word": "томахавк"
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      "sense": "American Indian axe",
      "word": "tomahavk"
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      "code": "tpi",
      "lang": "Tok Pisin",
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      "word": "томага́вк"
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 296:",
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        "To strike or cut up with a tomahawk."
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          "ref": "1909, Samuel Gordon Smyth, A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military, Church and Family Records and Documents, page 67:",
          "text": "He was the owner of 1,300 acres of land bought from the government and located where the city of Lexington, Ky., now stands. After his marriage he tomahawked an area of 600 acres near Carmichaelstown, […]",
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          "ref": "1915, Chronicles of the Cochrans: Being a Series of Historical Events and Narratives, in which Members of this Family Have Played a Prominent Part, page 55:",
          "text": "Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres.",
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          "ref": "1993, H. Austin Cooper, Two Centuries of Brothersvalley Church of the Brethren, 1762-1962: An Account of the Old Colonial Church, the Stony Creek German Baptist Church and the Area of Bruedersthal in which the Brethren Settled in the Summer of 1762, and Organized by Elder George Adam Martin, Presiding Elder:",
          "text": "The Germans thought that by just tomahawking a claim and living on it, it was an \"improvement\" and that was sufficient for claim; but not so with the Land Office. The land had to be legally registered and taxes paid on it […]",
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          "ref": "2011, Don Corbly, Pastor John Corbly and his neighbors in Greene Township, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:",
          "text": "They tomahawked the land they settled on and were joined by other settlers. Each settler picked out the piece of land that he or, in some instances, she desired which resulted in oddly shaped plats when they were later surveyed.",
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        "(historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it."
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          "ref": "2007, Bob Dyer, The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports, page 237:",
          "text": "When the league held its first slam-dunk contest in 1984 in Denver, Nance, then a Phoenix Sun, soared into the rafters with a basketball in each hand and tomahawked each one through the net before floating back to earth […]",
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