tomahawk
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/
美 /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.
— 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.
- A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
- 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.
- 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.
动词 v.
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To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
— In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and "tomahawked" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin.
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To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
— He was the owner of 1,300 acres of land bought from the government and located where the city of Lexington, Ky., now stands. After his marriage he tomahawked an area of 600 acres near Carmichaelstown, […]
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To perform a tomahawk dunk.
— When the league held its first slam-dunk contest in 1984 in Denver, Nance, then a Phoenix Sun, soared into the rafters with a basketball in each hand and tomahawked each one through the net before floating back to earth […]
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”).
词源 2
From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”).
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