Associations to the word «Tomahawk»

Wiktionary

TOMAHAWK, noun. An ax/axe used by American Indian (First Nations) warriors.
TOMAHAWK, noun. (basketball): A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head.
TOMAHAWK, 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.
TOMAHAWK, 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.
TOMAHAWK, verb. To strike with a tomahawk.
TOMAHAWK, 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.
TOMAHAWK MARK, noun. Marking in a tree or other piece of wood created with a tomahawk. Often used to denote property boundaries in frontier settings.

Dictionary definition

TOMAHAWK, noun. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians.
TOMAHAWK, verb. Cut with a tomahawk.
TOMAHAWK, verb. Kill with a tomahawk.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats