Etymology

From an Eastern AlgonquianCategory:English terms borrowed from Eastern Algonquian languages#TOMAHAWKCategory:English terms derived from Eastern Algonquian languages#TOMAHAWK word, most likely PowhatanCategory:English terms borrowed from Powhatan#TOMAHAWKCategory:English terms derived from Powhatan#TOMAHAWK tumahák;^[1] compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (US) /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/, /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/Category:English 3-syllable words#TOMAHAWKCategory:English 3-syllable words#TOMAHAWKCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TOMAHAWK
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/Category:English 3-syllable words#TOMAHAWKCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TOMAHAWK

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tomahawk (plural tomahawks)Category:English lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:English nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:English countable nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

2. An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.

   Synonym: (generic term) hatchet

   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 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.

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   • 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 178:

     At first, her presence was not observed; but, no sooner did the stranger catch a glimpse of her person, than he stopped, raised his hands in surprise, laid his rifle against a tree, and sprang forward; the girl closing her eyes, and sinking on the seat, with bowed head, expecting the blow of the deadly tomahawk.

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4. (basketballCategory:en:Basketball#TOMAHAWK) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
6. (geometryCategory:en:Geometry#TOMAHAWK) 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.
7. (field hockeyCategory:en:Field hockey#TOMAHAWK) 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.

Verb

tomahawk (third-person singular simple present tomahawks, present participle tomahawking, simple past and past participle tomahawked)Category:English lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:English verbs#TOMAHAWKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TOMAHAWK) To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 296:

     In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and "tomahawked" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin.

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   • 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:

     Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.

2. (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#TOMAHAWK, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TOMAHAWK) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
   • 1909, Samuel Gordon Smyth, A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military, Church and Family Records and Documents, page 67:

     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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   • 1915, Chronicles of the Cochrans: Being a Series of Historical Events and Narratives, in which Members of this Family Have Played a Prominent Part, page 55:

     Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres.

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   • 1993, H. Austin Cooper, Two Centuries of Brothersvalley Church of the Brethren, 1762-1962: An Account of the Old Colonial Church, the Stony Creek German Baptist Church and the Area of Bruedersthal in which the Brethren Settled in the Summer of 1762, and Organized by Elder George Adam Martin, Presiding Elder:

     The Germans thought that by just tomahawking a claim and living on it, it was an "improvement" and that was sufficient for claim; but not so with the Land Office. The land had to be legally registered and taxes paid on it […]

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   • 2011, Don Corbly, Pastor John Corbly and his neighbors in Greene Township, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:

     They tomahawked the land they settled on and were joined by other settlers. Each settler picked out the piece of land that he or, in some instances, she desired which resulted in oddly shaped plats when they were later surveyed.

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3. (basketballCategory:en:Basketball#TOMAHAWK, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TOMAHAWK) To perform a tomahawk dunk.
   • 2007, Bob Dyer, The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports, page 237:

     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 […]

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References

Etymology

From an Eastern AlgonquianCategory:French terms borrowed from Eastern Algonquian languages#TOMAHAWKCategory:French terms derived from Eastern Algonquian languages#TOMAHAWK word, most likely PowhatanCategory:French terms borrowed from Powhatan#TOMAHAWKCategory:French terms derived from Powhatan#TOMAHAWK tumahák;^[1] compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.ma.ok/Category:French 3-syllable words#TOMAHAWKCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#TOMAHAWK

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

tomahawk m (plural tomahawks)Category:French lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:French nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:French countable nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:French terms spelled with K#TOMAHAWKCategory:French terms spelled with W#TOMAHAWKCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:French masculine nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

1. tomahawk

References

Further reading

• “tomahawk”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Polish terms borrowed from English#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish unadapted borrowings from English#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish terms derived from English#TOMAHAWK tomahawk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔˈma.xɔk/Category:Polish 3-syllable words#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#TOMAHAWK

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -axɔkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/axɔk#TOMAHAWKCategory:Rhymes:Polish/axɔk/3 syllables#TOMAHAWK
• Syllabification: to‧ma‧hawk

Noun

tomahawk m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish masculine nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

1. tomahawk (axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler)

Further reading

• tomahawk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• tomahawk in PWN's encyclopedia

Noun

tomahawk m (plural tomahawks)Category:Portuguese lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:Portuguese nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Portuguese terms spelled with K#TOMAHAWKCategory:Portuguese terms spelled with W#TOMAHAWKCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

1. tomahawk (type of American Indian axe)

Further reading

• “tomahawk”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from English#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian unadapted borrowings from English#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian terms derived from English#TOMAHAWK tomahawk.

Noun

tomahawk n (plural tomahawkuri)Category:Romanian lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian countable nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian terms spelled with K#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian terms spelled with W#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

1. tomahawk

Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from English#TOMAHAWKCategory:Swedish terms derived from English#TOMAHAWK tomahawk.

Noun

tomahawk cCategory:Swedish lemmas#TOMAHAWKCategory:Swedish nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Swedish terms spelled with W#TOMAHAWKCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#TOMAHAWKCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with entries#TOMAHAWKCategory:Pages with 6 entries#TOMAHAWK

1. a tomahawk

   taktisk tomahawk

   tactical tomahawk

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References

• “tomahawk”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “tomahawk”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “tomahawk”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)