Definitions for "Machete"
A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
A large heavy knife used for cutting underbrush.
a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
Keywords:  falchion, medieval, mexico, newer, tool
machete. Multi-functional cutting tool common in Mexico.
a -newer- word for a tool that resembles (rather closely) the medieval falchion
Machete is the name of three fictional characters in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Keywords:  accessory, necessary
a necessary accessory