D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Machete

/(mȧ*shĕt"ē̇; Sp. mȧ*chā"tā̇)/ · Ma·che·te · IPA /məˈʃɛ.ti/
01 n. A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet …
  1. 1.
    A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
Syn. matchet.