Usually means: Axe used by Native Americans.
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  1. tomahawk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tomahawk: Merriam-Webster
  3. tomahawk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tomahawk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tomahawk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tomahawk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tomahawk, tomahawk: Wordnik
  8. tomahawk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tomahawk, tomahawk: Wiktionary
  10. tomahawk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tomahawk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tomahawk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tomahawk: Dictionary.com
  14. tomahawk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tomahawk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tomahawk (album), Tomahawk (axe), Tomahawk (band), Tomahawk (comics), Tomahawk (disambiguation), Tomahawk (film), Tomahawk (geometric shape), Tomahawk (geometry), Tomahawk (missile), Tomahawk (snowboarding trick), Tomahawk (software), Tomahawk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tomahawk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tomahawk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tomahawk: Rhymezone
  20. Tomahawk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tomahawk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TOMAHAWK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Tomahawk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. tomahawk: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tomahawk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. tomahawk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tomahawk (disambiguation), tomahawk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. tomahawk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tomahawk: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Tomahawk: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tomahawk, tomahawk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tomahawk: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.
noun:  (basketball) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
noun:  (geometry) 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.
noun:  (field hockey) 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:  To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
verb:  (historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
verb:  (basketball) To perform a tomahawk dunk.
noun:  (military) The 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.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A rural locality in Dorset council area, north-east Tasmania, Australia.
noun:  A hamlet in Parkland County, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A township in Searcy County, Arkansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Martin County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
noun:  A city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, adjacent to the city.

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