[
US
/ˈtɑməˌhɔk/
]
[ UK /tˈɒmɐhˌɔːk/ ]
[ UK /tˈɒmɐhˌɔːk/ ]
NOUN
- weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
VERB
- kill with a tomahawk
- cut with a tomahawk
How To Use tomahawk In A Sentence
- On one occasion the men dared Daniel T. Potts to charge a buffalo armed only with a tomahawk.
- In the aftermath, there was a perfectly concave indention in the marble floor where Atomahawk had knelt. Masked
- Some very brutal things happened - certainly when she was struck on a head by a tomahawk.
- U.S. navy officials said about 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired by U.S. warships deployed in the region.
- The original Native American tap was simply a V-shaped incision made with a tomahawk, and it allowed the sap to flow down into a bowl.
- I was so astounded that I picked up a cue and slapped the red away-and not ten minutes earlier I'd been hanging upside down from a wagon tail trying to avoid being tomahawked! Isabelle
- I threw them aside and got possession of a tomahawk from one of them.
- Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.” Between War and Peace
- More than 50, 000 people carrying free foam-rubber tomahawks evacuated the stadium as if there had been a bomb threat.
- A Tomahawk missile launch toward the Vietnam and Persian Gulf side of the mural is symbolic of the refitting of the battleship with modern weapons in the mid-1980s. Heroes or Villains?