tomahawk

noun4

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   An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.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
2. •
   A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   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.

verb3

1. •
   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
2. •
   To perform a tomahawk dunk.
3. •
   (historical) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.

   • Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres. — 1915

noun1

1. •
   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.

   • U.S. Navy surface ships launching Tomahawks against Chinese targets would thus have to approach within China's antiship-missile perimeter to bring their missiles in range (more on this in chapter 4). — 2022