Meaning & use
macana
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A wooden war club or sword-like weapon, often edged with sharp stone or obsidian blades, traditionally used by Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and South America.
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Aztec warriors wielded a macana studded with obsidian shards.
The museum's collection includes a nineteenth-century macana from the Andes.
A note on using this word
The word entered Spanish from Taino or Nahuatl and later spread to English through colonial-era accounts of the Americas.
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war club
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