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hatchet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatchet \Hatch"et\ (-[e^]t), n. [F. hachette, dim. of hache ax. See 1st Hatch, Hash.]
A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
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Specifically, a tomahawk.
Buried was the bloody hatchet.
--Longfellow.hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence:
hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged.
--Dryden.To bury the hatchet, to make peace or become reconciled.
To take up the hatchet, to make or declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the American Indians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 "small ax" (mid-12c. in surnames), from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache "ax, battle-axe, pickaxe," possibly from Frankish *happja or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hapjo- (cognates: Old High German happa "sickle, scythe"), from PIE root *kop- "to beat, strike" (cognates: Greek kopis "knife;" Lithuanian kaplys "hatchet," kapoti "cut small;" Old Church Slavonic skopiti "castrate").\n
\nIn Middle English, hatch itself was used in a sense "battle-axe." In 14c., hang up (one's) hatchet meant "stop what one is doing." Phrase bury the hatchet (1794) is from a supposed Native American peacemaking custom. Hatchet-man was originally California slang for "hired Chinese assassin" (1880), later extended figuratively to journalists who attacked the reputation of a public figure (1944).
Wiktionary
n. A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk. vb. (context transitive English) To cut with a hatchet.
WordNet
n. weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American indians [syn: tomahawk]
short ax used to chop wood
Wikipedia
Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series.
Hatchet is a 2006 American slasher horror film written and directed by Adam Green. The film has an ensemble cast, including Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Mercedes McNab and Tony Todd.
A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, ' axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammer head on the other side. Hatchets may also be used for hewing when making flattened surfaces on logs; when the hatchet head is optimized for this purpose it is called a broadaxe.
A hatchet should not to be confused with a hand axe, which is a small axe meant to be used with one hand. Technically, a hatchet has a hammer head on the back side. A hand axe, like a normal axe, has a broad flat area on the back side.
Hatchets have a variety of uses, such as tasks normally done by a pocket knife when one is not present. The hatchet can also be used to create a fire through sparks and friction. Hatchet throwing is increasing in popularity.
Burying the hatchet has become a phrase meaning to make peace, due to the Native American tradition of hiding or putting away a tomahawk when a peace agreement was made.
A hatchet is a type of small axe.
'''Hatchet ''' may also refer to:
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Hatchet (film), a 2006 slasher film
- Hatchet II, a 2010 sequel to the first film
- Hatchet III, a 2013 sequel and third installment of the series
- Hatchet (novel), written in 1987 by Gary Paulsen
- Hatchet (Transformers), a Decepticon in the Transformers fictional universe
- Hatchet, Alabama, a community in the United States
- The Hatchet (novel), written in 1930 by Mihail Sadoveanu
- The GW Hatchet, university publication
- Psychopathic Records, often referred to as The Hatchet, due to the label's logo design
Usage examples of "hatchet".
In a minute I had a bag of crackers and a long-handled spoon, with an open can each of apricots and pineapples and cherries and greengages beside of me with Uncle Emsley busy chopping away with the hatchet at the yellow clings.
The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.
He began by ordering me to give him the hatchet and the tools I had used to pierce the floor, and to tell him from which of the guards I had got the tools.
I took up my hatchet dat I had in de bote, whar I split liteard wid and hit him on de head.
On the first of February, 1894, Roux of the narrow chest and hatchet face and black skull cap, walked into the diphtheria ward of the Hospital for sick children, carrying bottles of his straw-colored, miracle-working stuff.
The officer assigned to conduct the last stage of the search had no scruples about opening her head with knife and hatchet and probing gorily about inside the skull.
Cyrus Harding and his companions, hatchets in hand, advanced along the shattered deck.
Your picks and hatchets and really big tongs, red knuckles and rimed windows and thin bitter freezer-smell with runny-nosed Poles in plaid coats and kalpacs, your older ones with a chronic cant to one side from all the time lugging ice.
If the chip is short, the opening of the kerf will be narrow and your hatchet will become wedged, obliging you to double your labor by enlarging the kerf.
At nearly the same moment that Lowan made his move, another man, George maybe, must have taken a two-handed swipe at the Philadelphia boy and buried the hatchet head deep at the junction of his neck and shoulder.
In the dim light of the interior I saw that Nobs had already accounted for one of the others--one who lay very quiet upon the floor--while the four remaining upon their feet were striking at him with knives and hatchets.
We would rush for a man, simultaneously, and as Nobs leaped for him upon one side, I would strike at his head with the stone hatchet from the other.
They were encompassed by fifty naked Oreillons, armed with bows and arrows, with clubs and flint hatchets.
Slickers and helmets, hatchets and breathing masks, were handed out from the big pumper truck while another crew deployed the hoses.
Steam power came, but the chair was never brought out of storage, because a more recent Hannegan found the best executioner on this continent in the person of Wooshin, whose ancestors came from a different continent, and who used a hatchet with such artistry and ease that a whole afternoon of severing heads left him untired and tranquil, able to sit in deep meditation for two hours before dinner.