panga
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- noun
- South African
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panga
- About 3,000 miners, armed with pangas and spears, had been protesting and demanding a minimum wage of 1,495 dollars monthly outside the Lonmin-owned platinum mine when police attempted to break up the demonstration.
- pangas or machetes
- cut with a panga
Examples
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As we got halfway down the road, we saw a fever tree had fallen over and blocked the road, so while Mark and Skigh were looking for a new road around, Mussa jumped up on the tree and started hacking away at it with the panga. We spent 1 hour clearing the tree branch by branch.
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Quick as he was, the black man was faster, and with a single swipe of his panga, he almost severed the Englishman's right hand from his wrist.
Fiction book (1994) -
A man lay dead by the side of the road, his throat cut with a panga as if he were a goat.
Fiction book (2000) -
The panga came down again, practically splitting him open, but as he fell, he.
Fiction book (1994) -
He walked back into the main room and found himself facing a well-built black man holding a machete-like panga in his right hand.
Fiction book (1994) -
The boy had arrived with several pangas and began cutting the grass when it suddenly occurred to the professor that a rake would soon be needed for the job.
Fiction book (1991) -
He had to put an electrified fence around his kraal to protect his Holsteins from thieves after one of his watch-boys had been injured in a panga attack.
Fiction book (1994) -
The farmer used his panga to clear the thick brush from the fields.
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He felt safer carrying a panga while hiking through the jungle.
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During the festival, villagers demonstrated how to use a panga for traditional tasks.
Synonyms
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A tool with a sharp blade and handle used for cutting or as a weapon
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A large strong knife with a wide blade that people use to cut plants or as a weapon
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A large heavy knife for chopping meat and vegetables
A large heavy knife like a machete used to cut plants or for protection
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Etymology
Panga comes from East African use for a big, heavy cutting tool similar to a 'machete', a word found in Swahili and local languages. That's why panga means a large knife used to cut thick plants or, at times, used as a weapon.