Definition of tomahawk in English:
tomahawk
noun ˈtɒməhɔːkˈtɑməˌhɔk
1A light axe used as a tool or weapon by North American Indians.
（印第安人作工具、武器用的）印第安战斧- The party is ambushed by Cherokee Indians who attack with bow and arrow, tomahawks, and a handful of lever action rifles.
- Haynes seems to have included the pendant, separated from the tomahawk, in some pictures simply as another piece of Indian beadwork.
- Munduli is ‘the tomahawk place’ where they used to get stone for tomahawks.
- The drop earrings, tomahawk, knife and scabbard, and bow and arrows vie for the viewer's attention with the striking claret color of the headdress, which matches both the fringe of the frock coat and one of the shoulder sashes.
- 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.
- Steel pots and knives, tomahawks, glass beads, manufactured cloth, guns, and gunpowder gradually replaced traditional products of native manufacture.
- The French fought with firearms, while traditional Iroquois weapons were bows and arrows, stone tomahawks, and wooden warclubs.
- Having now experienced the skill involved in throwing a tomahawk, how Sitting Bull and Little White Dove managed to hunt, kill and bring home the buffalo for dinner is beyond me.
- She was as good with a gun, knife or tomahawk as any man alive, and though eastern schools had polished her vocabulary and ignited an unquenchable curiosity in her they had done little to tame her.
- He was arrested for possession of a weapon, the tomahawk, and the report indicated the police officer used force by drawing his service weapon to affect the arrest.
- Drawn in the tradition of rock art, these last depict the weapons and utensils necessary for hunting and fighting - spears, shields, boomerangs, digging sticks, sharpening stones and tomahawks.
- The demand for his knives, tomahawks, powder horns, hunting pouches and other hand-crafted items finally grew to the point it became a full time endeavor.
- A little over 300 years ago, shrieking war cries and flying tomahawks shattered the summer calm in a frontier town of the Massachusetts Province.
- The latter was given in full war paint and feathers, to the music of native drums and was accompanied by the usual brandishing of tomahawks and scalping knives.
- 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.
- They carried medicine bundles, the red sticks of invincibility, and their tomahawks, and they also carried rifles and guns from Panton Leslie and Company.
- On one occasion the men dared Daniel T. Potts to charge a buffalo armed only with a tomahawk.
- On display on the ground floor of the well-preserved premises are colourful beads and stones, rolls of fur and skins, tomahawks and axes that Indians traded for bales of cloth, guns and other manufactured goods from Europe.
- I think about my teepee, my tomahawk, my stocky bay horse who is standing even now, a striped blanket thrown over his back, ready to gallop me over the plains, into the red and dusty West.
- Above the clasped hands are a peace pipe and a tomahawk.
poleaxe, axe, pike, halberd, war mattock, mace- 1.1Australian, NZ A hatchet.〈澳／新西兰〉短柄小斧
- He was struck in the face with a tomahawk, the force so great it broke the weapon's handle, before receiving several blows from the taiaha.
- The injuries were of a type consistent with being inflicted by a hatchet or tomahawk.
- I recall being locked in the washhouse by a friend of my elder brother, and at another time, hurling a tomahawk at the same boy.
- I threw them aside and got possession of a tomahawk from one of them.
- A week later, a larger party of some 200 Maori appeared, this time with spears slung over their backs, and muskets and tomahawks.
- Shortly afterwards they murdered John by bashing in his skull with a tomahawk.
- Some very brutal things happened - certainly when she was struck on a head by a tomahawk.
verb ˈtɒməhɔːkˈtɑməˌhɔk
[with object]Strike or cut with or as if with a tomahawk.
（用战斧）劈，砍，斩I took a hammer from the drawer and tomahawked their dolls- Later, a coroner found that he had been tomahawked several times, causing instant death.
- But I suppose it was her last chance and the old man would have tomahawked me if I hadn't taken her.
Origin
Early 17th century: from a Virginia Algonquian language.
Definition of tomahawk in US English:
tomahawk
nounˈtɑməˌhɔkˈtäməˌhôk
A light ax used as a tool or weapon by North American Indians.
（印第安人作工具、武器用的）印第安战斧- The party is ambushed by Cherokee Indians who attack with bow and arrow, tomahawks, and a handful of lever action rifles.
- She was as good with a gun, knife or tomahawk as any man alive, and though eastern schools had polished her vocabulary and ignited an unquenchable curiosity in her they had done little to tame her.
- Haynes seems to have included the pendant, separated from the tomahawk, in some pictures simply as another piece of Indian beadwork.
- Munduli is ‘the tomahawk place’ where they used to get stone for tomahawks.
- On one occasion the men dared Daniel T. Potts to charge a buffalo armed only with a tomahawk.
- Drawn in the tradition of rock art, these last depict the weapons and utensils necessary for hunting and fighting - spears, shields, boomerangs, digging sticks, sharpening stones and tomahawks.
- 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.
- The demand for his knives, tomahawks, powder horns, hunting pouches and other hand-crafted items finally grew to the point it became a full time endeavor.
- Above the clasped hands are a peace pipe and a tomahawk.
- He was arrested for possession of a weapon, the tomahawk, and the report indicated the police officer used force by drawing his service weapon to affect the arrest.
- I think about my teepee, my tomahawk, my stocky bay horse who is standing even now, a striped blanket thrown over his back, ready to gallop me over the plains, into the red and dusty West.
- They carried medicine bundles, the red sticks of invincibility, and their tomahawks, and they also carried rifles and guns from Panton Leslie and Company.
- Steel pots and knives, tomahawks, glass beads, manufactured cloth, guns, and gunpowder gradually replaced traditional products of native manufacture.
- The latter was given in full war paint and feathers, to the music of native drums and was accompanied by the usual brandishing of tomahawks and scalping knives.
- A little over 300 years ago, shrieking war cries and flying tomahawks shattered the summer calm in a frontier town of the Massachusetts Province.
- 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.
- The French fought with firearms, while traditional Iroquois weapons were bows and arrows, stone tomahawks, and wooden warclubs.
- On display on the ground floor of the well-preserved premises are colourful beads and stones, rolls of fur and skins, tomahawks and axes that Indians traded for bales of cloth, guns and other manufactured goods from Europe.
- Having now experienced the skill involved in throwing a tomahawk, how Sitting Bull and Little White Dove managed to hunt, kill and bring home the buffalo for dinner is beyond me.
- The drop earrings, tomahawk, knife and scabbard, and bow and arrows vie for the viewer's attention with the striking claret color of the headdress, which matches both the fringe of the frock coat and one of the shoulder sashes.
poleaxe, axe, pike, halberd, war mattock, mace
verbˈtɑməˌhɔkˈtäməˌhôk
[with object]Strike or cut with or as if with a tomahawk.
（用战斧）劈，砍，斩- But I suppose it was her last chance and the old man would have tomahawked me if I hadn't taken her.
- Later, a coroner found that he had been tomahawked several times, causing instant death.
Origin
Early 17th century: from a Virginia Algonquian language.