Machete /(mȧ*shĕt"ē̇; Sp. mȧ*chā"tā̇)/

Ma·che·te

Machete

n.
  1. 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.