||Ma*che"te (m&adot;*chā"t&asl;), n. [Sp.] 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. J. Stevens.

• A type of sword, long, straight, used to clear paths in the jungle.