Machetes were also a distinctive tool and weapon of the Haitian Tonton Macoute. Many of the killings in the 1994 Rwandan genocide were performed with machetes, and they were the primary weapon used by the Interahamwe militias there. For example, the Boricua Popular Army are unofficially called macheteros because of the machete-wielding laborers of sugar cane fields of past Puerto Rico. People in uprisings sometimes use these weapons. However, many hunter–gatherer societies and cultures surviving through subsistence agriculture begin teaching babies to use sharp tools, including machetes, before their first birthdays. Machetes are often considered tools and used by adults. It is common to see people using machetes for other jobs, such as splitting open coconuts, yard work, removing small branches and plants, chopping animals' food, and clearing bushes. Besides this, in Latin America a common use is for such household tasks as cutting large foodstuffs into pieces-much as a cleaver is used-or to perform crude cutting tasks, such as making simple wooden handles for other tools. In various tropical and subtropical countries, the machete is frequently used to cut through rainforest undergrowth and for agricultural purposes (e.g. In much of the English-speaking Caribbean, such as Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago, the term cutlass is used for these agricultural tools. It is the origin of the English language equivalent term matchet, though this is less commonly used. Alternatively, its origin may be machaera, the name given by the Greeks and Romans to the falcata. In the Spanish language, the word is possibly a diminutive form of the word macho, which was used to refer to sledgehammers. The blade is typically 30 to 45 centimetres (12 to 18 in) long and usually under 3 millimetres ( 1⁄ 8 in) thick. Horn handle, hand forged blade (hammer marks visible)Ī machete ( / m ə ˈ ʃ ɛ t i/ Spanish pronunciation: ) is a broad blade used either as an agricultural implement similar to an axe, or in combat like a long-bladed knife.
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