Machete

A machete is a handheld bladed cutting tool. Designed primarily for cutting through dense underbrush in tropical regions, it may also be used as a weapon. As a weapon, a machete is light in weight, easy to wield and suitably effective for dispatching would-be victims.

Walking Dead, The
Rick Grimes used a machete to butcher a cannibal named Gareth in St. Sarah's Episcopal Church in Georgia.

Rick later used this same machete to fight off several walkers on a bridge in rural Virginia.