machete
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Arrabaca had two axes, a hammer, a machete, six fireworks and three fixed-blade knives, Barnacle said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Cuellar identified the man who allegedly wielded the machete as Cornell Richardson, 32.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
As the two old men told their stories, a youngster brushed past them, a machete slung over his shoulder.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
There are exemptions for people who have good reason to own the items, for example, a specialist machete used in forestry or an antique Samurai sword.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
I hear thumps and clumps and an oof from Matthew and I look up and he’s buried in silage rolls, his arm out to one side, the machete dropped.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
During the last amnesty in 2006, people handed over more than 12,500 blades to police without facing criminal charges - they included machetes, swords, meat cleavers, bayonets and axes.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Besides pulling off dozens of ticks, Bardwell recalled the main challenge being “wait-a-minute vines,” made tougher by cheap, ineffective machetes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
The ban covers machetes, which are broadly defined as "knives with a cutting blade longer than 20cm".
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
In September 2024, the government introduced legislation making it an imprisonable offence to own or sell zombie-style knives and machetes.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
The workers, who had been content to wait until then, went into the woods with no other weapons but their working machetes and they began to sabotage the sabotage.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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