Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics or in advancing one's career. / Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.

A ruthless schemer.

The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively. / The working parts of a machine as a group. / The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.

To cut or chop with a machete. / To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

A vending machine that dispenses soft drinks.

a mechanical device, often coin-operated, for determining the weight of an object or person

(Irish mythology) The wife of Nemed. She died only twelve days after arriving in Ireland. / Macha of the Tuatha Dé Danann who is the daughter of Ernmas and sister of Mórrígan.

(architecture) An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.

A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines. / One skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.