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A machete (/ m ə ˈ ʃ ɛ t i /; Spanish pronunciation:) is a broad blade used either as an agricultural implement similar to an axe, or in combat like a long-bladed knife. The blade is typically 30 to 66 centimetres (12 to 26 in) long and usually under 3 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 8 in) thick.
In Kerala, Malayalam language references the semi-circular knife for paddy, called "koduval" and the regular sized billhook machete is known as "vaakathi" (coconut cutting); while the veecharuval is known simply as aruval. The veecharuval was also used as a weapon and is still used as such for self-defence in rural areas or gang warfare in cities.
Though described in the Office of Strategic Services catalogue as a cross between a machete and a bolo, it was actually based on the Royal Welch Fusiliers Trench Knife of World War I, and was designed as a pure combat knife. It has a broad, leaf-shaped blade sharpened the full length on one side, and from the tip to half of the other side.
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The blowpipe is also the most popular long-range weapon in silat and was most often used to kill someone unawares. It typically measures 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) long and is made from two pieces of bamboo, one for the barrel and one for the casing. In close combat, it could be wielded as a stick.
The blade, as later described by Rezin Bowie, was 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (24 cm) long, 1 ⁄ 4 in (6.4 mm) thick and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (3.8 cm) wide. It was straight-backed, described by witnesses as "a large butcher knife", and having no clip-point nor any handguard , with a simple riveted wood scale handle.
American Eagle staff were threatened with guns and a machete while working in San Francisco mall, new lawsuit says Eleanor Pringle September 14, 2023 at 7:07 AM
The word "cutlass" developed from the 17th-century English use of coutelas, a 16th-century French word for a machete-like mid-length single-edged blade (the modern French for "knife", in general, is couteau; in 17th- and 18th-century English the word was often spelled "cuttoe").
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