Definizione monolingua

tomahawk

tomahawk (third-person singular simple present tomahawks, present participle tomahawking, simple past and past participle tomahawked)

1. to strike with a tomahawk

tomahawk (plural tomahawks)

1. An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 13:

     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.

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.

Definizione dizionario tomahawk

tomahawk

Altri significati:

American Indian axe

An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.

to strike with a tomahawk

(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.

(basketball): A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head

The war axe of North American indians.

(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.