Name a warlike fellow's weapon (8)
I believe the answer is:
tomahawk
'weapon' is the definition.
(tomahawk is a kind of weapon)
'name a warlike fellow's' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'name' could be 'toma' and 'toma' is located in the answer.
'a' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tomahawk that I've seen before include "US native axe" , "American Indian axe" , "its strike can be fatal" , "killer on reservation?" , "Native American war-axe" .)