Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Machete \Ma*che"te\, 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.

Source : WordNet®

machete
     n : a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a
         weapon or for cutting vegetation [syn: {matchet}, {panga}]