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.
Wiktionary
a. (context of a person English) Having a narrow face with sharp features
Usage examples of "hatchet-faced".
One of the graduate prorectors' little tasks is supposedly to go around to different Subdorm floors and check the rooms for things like are the beds made up drum-tight, with unpleasant little extra drills added to the regimens of bed-making and toothpaste-cap replacing slackers, though few of the prorectors have the combination anality and drive actually to go around to their assigned rooms with a checklist, the exceptions being Au brey deLint, Mary Esther Thode, and the hatchet-faced Kenyan Tony Nwangi, who's got the Pemulis/Troeltsch/Schacht suite under extremely beady scrutiny at all times.
Marcus shouted to the man he figured for their leader, a short, dark, hatchet-faced Videssian who wore his wealth his hands glittered with gold rings, his arms with heavy bracelets.
Her maid Lizzie and the hatchet-faced footman named George were trailing behind her, their arms piled high with a collection of the latest romances and epic poetry which Emily had just finished selecting in the shop.
Another man sat at the corner of the desk in a blue leather chair, a cold-eyed hatchet-faced man, as lean as a rake and as hard as the manager of a loan office.
Robard paced along beside him, a tall, sepulchrally black figure, hatchet-faced with worry.
The dossier he’d scanned on the long trip out from Terra had called her one of the New Sierran army’s most intelligent and free-thinking officers, but it had left him expecting the stereotypical hatchet-faced schoolteacher instead of a young, attractive woman who spoke with studied eloquence and no small degree of passion.
The dossier he'd scanned on the long trip out from Terra had called her one of the New Sierran army's most intelligent and free-thinking officers, but it had left him expecting the stereotypical hatchet-faced schoolteacher instead of a young, attractive woman who spoke with studied eloquence and no small ~degree of passion.