Interesting link; nice looking non-bat-head parang nabur over there. On the other weapons page (otras armas or armas otras or somthing) is a heavy Spanish artillery short sword whose official name in the Spanish military is machete (of some kind), as you say, typically of the varience in Spanish and N American use of the term. However, I must point out that I've seen numbers of actual machetes (ie. thin, flattish, flat tang, no guard, rounded slashing tip.) either from or for the export to, Cuba. Cuba is known as one of the places that had a "tipping" law in part of the 20th, BTW. This is alluded to in the Collins book, if I recall correctly; I forget the author's name at the moment.
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