[
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
- Their highest instinct of sportsmanship is to catch a man with his back turned and to smite him a cunning blow with a tomahawk that severs the spinal column at the base of the brain. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
- Above the clasped hands are a peace pipe and a tomahawk.
- Jerusalem's wish-list includes nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles, real-time satellite intelligence and funding for missile defence.
- At noon when we stopped, the men rolled up a barrel of pork on to the deck and one of them, named Cheek bestrided with a tomahawk, crying out "give the word Captain. Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans
- While I don't want to stint on my daughter's safety - I have every intention of buying a car that can take a side-on collision from a Tomahawk missile - I am constantly amazed at the precautions we must take these days.
- The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop.
- In the course of this lavation, it was discovered the extraordinary flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound on the back of the head, by the sharp and ponderous tomahawk of an Indian. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
- Putting his performance down to beginner's luck, I stepped up for another go, determined not to lay down my weapons until I had succeeded in making at least one tomahawk stick in the tree trunk.
- Shortly afterwards they murdered John by bashing in his skull with a tomahawk.
- Equipped with "a good Queen Anne's musket, plenty of ammunition, a tomahawk, a large cuttoe knife [French, couteau], a Dutch blanket, and no small quantity of jerked beef, The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790