tomahawking

Verb

tomahawk (third-person singular simple present tomahawks, present participle tomahawking, simple past and past participle tomahawked)

1. (transitive) 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.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 296
2. (historical, transitive) To 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, […]1909, Samuel Gordon Smyth, A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military, Church and Family Records and Documents, page 67
3. (transitive) To 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 […]2007, Bob Dyer, The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports, page 237

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