noun (n)

• a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation(noun.artifact)

  Synonym:
  matchet, panga
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913