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A tomahawk is a light axe with a short handle, used by Native American peoples as a tool and as a weapon. It is small enough to carry at your belt and to throw, which is why it looks so different from the heavy two-handed axe you use for cutting down trees.
A tomahawk戰斧 is a light axe with a short handle是一種短柄的輕型斧頭, used by Native American peoples as a tool and as a weapon美洲原住民族用來當工具，也當武器。It它 is small enough to carry at your belt and to throw小到可以掛在腰帶上，也可以拿來投擲, which is why it looks so different from the heavy two-handed axe you use for cutting down trees這就是為什麼它看起來跟你用來砍樹的那種笨重雙手斧完全不一樣。
The word came into English from an Algonquian language on the east coast of North America, most likely Powhatan.
The word這個字 came into English from an Algonquian language on the east coast of North America是從北美東岸的一種阿爾岡昆語進入英文的, most likely Powhatan最可能是波瓦坦語。
Two other uses are worth knowing. Bury the hatchet — sometimes bury the tomahawk — means to make peace and stop fighting, from the practice of putting the weapon in the ground to show the quarrel is over.
Two other uses are worth knowing還有兩個用法值得認識。Bury the hatchet — sometimes bury the tomahawk「Bury the hatchet」——有時候說「bury the tomahawk」 — means to make peace and stop fighting意思是講和、停止爭鬥, from the practice of putting the weapon in the ground to show the quarrel is over來自把武器埋進土裡、表示爭執結束的做法。
And in the news you will meet the Tomahawk missile, a long-range American cruise missile named after the weapon. There is also a tomahawk steak, a big beef rib steak with the long bone left on so it looks like an axe.
And另外 in the news在新聞裡 you你 will meet the Tomahawk missile會遇到Tomahawk飛彈, a long-range American cruise missile named after the weapon這是一種以這種武器命名的美製長程巡弋飛彈。There is also還有 a tomahawk steak tomahawk steak（戰斧牛排）, a big beef rib steak with the long bone left on是一種留著長骨頭的大塊牛肋排 so it looks like an axe看起來就像一把斧頭。
Because the word is tied to real peoples and to a painful history, use it for the object and be careful with the film-cowboy phrases built on it; some, like 'on the warpath', now sound offensive to many people.
Because因為 the word is tied to real peoples and to a painful history這個字跟真實的民族和一段痛苦的歷史連在一起, use it for the object用它來指這個物品沒問題 and但要小心 be careful with the film-cowboy phrases built on it那些從它衍生出來的電影牛仔式說法; some, like 'on the warpath'有些，像「on the warpath」, now sound offensive to many people現在對很多人來說聽起來帶有冒犯意味。
組成借自北美東岸的阿爾岡昆語族，最可能是 Powhatan 語的 tumahák，意思就是「斧頭」。不能拆成英文的字根。
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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governmentmilitarypoliticsThe BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine.
- U.S. Navy surface ships launching Tomahawks against Chinese targets would thus have to approach within China's antiship-missile perimeter to bring their missiles in range (more on this in chapter 4).
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tomahawknoun/ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/
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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.
- 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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ball-gamesbasketballgamesA dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
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geometrymathematicssciencesA 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.
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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.
tomahawkverb/ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/
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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.
- Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.
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historicalTo 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, […]
- 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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ball-gamesbasketballgamesTo 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 […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。