matchet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ormsgill, pressing onwards with them, saw that he had now a matchet in his hand, though he had no recollection of how it came there.
From Long Odds by Harold Bindloss
Amadu laughed mirthlessly, and fingering the hilt of the straight blade glanced at Monday, whose face was very grim, and the little negro, Bad Dollar, crouching close by with a polished matchet in his hand.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
When the cane is ripe, they proceed to the field, each armed with a matchet.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various
The highest levels, only a few feet above water, are grown with a dense bush that wants the matchet.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Its glare beat along the matchet blades, the gun-barrels, and the oily skin of the men beneath, and showed black patches which might have been arms or heads among the grass.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
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