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hatchet

[ hach-it ]

noun

  1. a small, short-handled ax having the end of the head opposite the blade in the form of a hammer, made to be used with one hand.
  2. a tomahawk.


verb (used with object)

  1. to cut, destroy, kill, etc., with a hatchet.
  2. to abridge, delete, excise, etc.:

    The network censor may hatchet 30 minutes from the script.

hatchet

/ ˈhætʃɪt /

noun

  1. a short axe used for chopping wood, etc
  2. a tomahawk
  3. modifier of narrow dimensions and sharp features

    a hatchet face

  4. bury the hatchet
    to cease hostilities and become reconciled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈhatchet-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • hatchet·like adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hatchet1

1300–50; 1670–80, Americanism hatchet fordef 6; Middle English hachet < Middle French hachette, diminutive ( -et ) of hache ax < Frankish *hapja kind of knife; akin to Greek kóptein to cut ( comma, syncope )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hatchet1

C14: from Old French hachette, from hache axe, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German happa knife
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited; make peace.
  2. take up the hatchet, to begin or resume hostilities; prepare for or go to war:

    The natives are taking up the hatchet against the enemy.

More idioms and phrases containing hatchet

  • bury the hatchet
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Example Sentences

It’s tempting to bring extra clothing, water bottles, hatchets, and more, but if there’s a chance you might not use them, it’s not worth carrying them around on your back.

This is a subject that people tend to have pretty strong opinions about, so please don’t think I’m so insane as to attempt a detailed stacking guide for Outside, only to have the woodsmansplainers bust out their hatchets.

In a room on the right, Mono finds a hatchet that’s just about as long as he is tall.

At the Sussex County Courthouse in Georgetown, political rivals literally bury the hatchet.

Prosecutors claim that Silento walked into a stranger’s home in Los Angeles that was unlocked on Saturday and then began swinging a hatchet at two people.

The conviction of the man known as The Hatchet, infamous for filming himself torturing gay people, is good news.

This is not a hatchet job, and it certainly could have been.

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And, he added, a mayor would be foolish to attempt to “take a hatchet to the financial industry.”

According to the police report, officers also found a Taser and a hatchet in the house.

The formation of an axe or hatchet, however crude it may have been, would naturally lead to another step in advance.

He had the hatchet face of the clever Yankee, alert, sharply defined, with a high-bridged and rather bold English nose.

To be sure, he might kill the dog with the hatchet, but such butchery was repugnant to him, and he quickly dismissed the idea.

It is not rare to find in primitive submarine formations these singular kinds of passages, which seem cut out with a hatchet.

The planking had been sawed, the timber cut with the hatchet, the ironwork with a file, the sheathing with the chisel.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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