What's the difference between bolo and machete?

Bolo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bolo disease is limited to Merino and Döhne merino sheep in the Stutterheim and Cathcart districts of the eastern Cape Province.
  • (2) A total of 718 sheep, 381 severely and 190 mildly affected with Bolo disease as well as 147 visibly unaffected animals emanating from 15 farms in the Stutterheim and Cathcart districts in the eastern Cape were subjected to bacteriological examination of skin surfaces and wool specimens.
  • (3) This rate was not significantly different from the rates reported in control populations by Blum et al (1990), CEPH, or Bolos et al (1990), and differed only slightly from those reported by Grandy et al (1990).
  • (4) In a comparative study, swabs taken directly from the skin surface, proved to be the method of choice for the collection of specimens for bacteriological examination of Bolo disease.
  • (5) was isolated from 98.7% of severely, and 85.3% of mildly affected sheep as well as 4% of sheep apparently unaffected by Bolo disease.
  • (6) Wearing trademark jeans, boots, cowboy hat and bolo tie, the Mormon father of 14 was upbeat in an interview with the Guardian, speaking from the family home – which as a boy he helped his father build – and as he inspected cattle pens, trailed by his two dogs.
  • (7) The local bread, bolo de caco, made with potato and served with more garlic butter, is astonishingly good.
  • (8) Bolo de miel, or honey cake, is delicious and robust enough to survive the journey home.
  • (9) In all, Corynebacterium spp was isolated from specimens of 94.2% of sheep severely affected with Bolo disease and from 83.7% of those mildly affected, whereas it could only be isolated from 1.36% clinically unaffected sheep.
  • (10) Consistent with the results of Gueron and his colleagues [Leroy, J. L., Bolo, N., Figueroa, N., Plateau, P., & Gueron, M. (1985) J. Biomol.

Machete


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Groups of men with machetes have been roaming the ruins seeking supplies of food or water.
  • (2) Plainclothes soldiers, one of them with a plastic-handled kitchen knife in the pocket of his shorts and a machete visible under his football shirt stopped and questioned any outsiders.
  • (3) In response, predominantly Christian forces known as the anti-balaka (balaka means machete in Sango, the local language) launched counterattacks against the Seleka and perceived Muslim collaborators.
  • (4) Blakelock, while on the ground, suffered eight machete wounds to the scalp, a knife driven into the back of the mouth with only the handle visible, 13 knife wounds to the back of the body, and wounds to his hands and arms.
  • (5) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .
  • (6) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
  • (7) Government workers with machetes cleared fallen trees from streets while a vast number of uninhabitable houses prompted residents to erect makeshift shelters.
  • (8) She had been slashed with a machete, hit on the head, thrown into a hole and raped.
  • (9) The Haitian in whose house in Port-au-Prince we are staying – a prominent businessman and generally very pro-America – keeps a cherished machete on his wall.
  • (10) Robert Doggart, 63, and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light-armor piercing”, a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
  • (11) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
  • (12) Chaves is a rough, tough, durable fighter who is very dangerous,” said Brook, who was unable to fight for almost seven months prior to beating Dan in March, having been stabbed in the leg with a machete while on holiday in Tenerife last September.
  • (13) As interahamwe leader Adalbert Munzigura told Hatzfeld in A Time For Machetes: "They needed intoxication, like someone who calls louder and louder for a bottle.
  • (14) On 1 March, black-clad assailants killed 29 people with knives and machetes at a train station in the south-western city of Kunming.
  • (15) Michelle had been walking along the road in the village of Monjas, in Jalapa, about 50 miles from Guatemala City, when a man on a motorcycle pulled up alongside her with a machete tied to his thigh.
  • (16) Frances Toor, whose work had always been supported or at least tolerated by successive governments, began to fear that the new, highly conservative and anti-left government would close down her Mexican Folkways, as El Machete had been closed down by the government in 1929 (though it continued to be published, illegally, from 1929 to 1934).
  • (17) "If I'm checking IDs at roadblocks, knowing that person is going to be clubbed to death, I'm as responsible as if I wielded the machete myself," said Capin.
  • (18) Witnesses claimed that some of the miners were armed with pistols and fired first, while also charging the police with machetes and sticks.
  • (19) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
  • (20) Two years later, it was there that he was hacked to death by half a dozen machete-wielding men.

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