You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machete's blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick
A machete is a large knife with a broad blade. a large knife with a broad heavy blade, used as a weapon or a tool (macho )
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
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion. A machetes blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters (cm) long, and up to three millimeters (mm) thick