Tomahawk
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Tomahawk usually refers to:
- Tomahawk (axe), a type of axe made and used by Native Americans
- Tomahawk (missile), a cruise missile built in the United States
It may also mean:
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[edit] Military and transportation
- Piper PA-38 Tomahawk, a light general aviation aircraft
- TE-416 Tomahawk, a US sounding rocket
- Alternate name for three variants of a US World War II fighter aircraft, the Curtiss Hawk 81A, P-40B & P-40C
- Dodge Tomahawk, a concept motorcycle
- USS Tomahawk (AO-88), a World War II fuel supply ship
[edit] Fiction
- Tomahawk (film) (1951), directed by George Sherman
- Tomahawk (comics), a DC Comics character, published in his own series during the 1950s and 1960s
- Tomahawk (G.I. Joe), a helicopter in the G.I. Joe universe
- Tomahawk (Transformers), a Transformers character
[edit] Places
- Australia
- Tomahawk, Tasmania, a town
- Canada
- Tomahawk, Alberta, a hamlet
- New Zealand
- Ocean Grove, New Zealand, formerly called Tomahawk from the Māori (Tomo-haka)
- United States
- Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin, a town
- Lake Tomahawk (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Tomahawk, Kentucky, a small community in eastern Kentucky
- Tomahawk, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Tomahawk, Wisconsin, a city
- Tomahawk (town), Wisconsin, a nearby town
[edit] Sports
- In basketball, a one-handed slam dunk, where the ball is brought over the head before being stuffed into the basket, in a chopping motion
- A turning maneuver used in roller skating
- The United States national rugby league team, nicknamed the Tomahawks
- In field hockey, a type of hit where the hockey stick is turned so that the rounded side faces the ground and then swung in such a way that it hits the ball in a downward chopping motion
- In snowboarding, a Tomahawk (snowboarding trick) is a double McTwist 1260 first performed by Shaun White in the 2010 Winter Olympics
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Tomahawk (band), a band fronted by Mike Patton
- Tomahawk (geometric shape), a geometric shape that can be used to trisect angles
- Tomahawk (satirical magazine), a weekly magazine (1867–1870)
- Tomahawk Festival, a heavy metal music festival in Germany
- Tom Hawkins (footballer), an Australian Rules Footballer, nicknamed 'Tomahawk'
- Tomahawk, a set of Java Server Faces components created by the MyFaces development team prior to its donation to Apache
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