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tommyhawk

tommyhawk is the pronunciation spelling of tomahawk.

Meaning of tomahawk

Noun

tomahawk (plural tomahawks)

  1. An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.
    • yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man […] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets.1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 13
    Synonyms:
    hatchet
  2. A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
  3. 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.
  4. (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.

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Forms of tommyhawk

Noun
pluraltommyhawks
Verb
third-person singular presenttommyhawks
present participletommyhawking
past participletommyhawked
pasttommyhawked

Questions about tommyhawk

What is tommyhawk the pronunciation spelling of?
Tommyhawk is the pronunciation spelling of tomahawk.

Words near tommyhawk in the dictionary

  1. tommy-knockers
  2. tommy-rot
  3. tommycod
  4. tommycods
  5. tommyfish
  6. tommyhawk
  7. tommyhawked
  8. tommyhawking
  9. tommyhawks
  10. tommying
  11. tommyknocker

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