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Hatchet definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HATCH'ET, n. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
To take up the hatchet, a phrase borrowed from the natives of America, is to make war.
To bury the hatchet, is to make peace.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians [syn: tomahawk, hatchet]
2: a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English hachet, from Anglo-French hachette, diminutive of hache battle-ax — more at hash Date: 14th century 1. a short-handled ax often with a hammerhead to be used with one hand 2. tomahawk

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a light short-handled axe. Phrases and idioms: hatchet-faced colloq. sharp-featured or grim-looking. hatchet job colloq. a fierce verbal attack on a person, esp. in print. hatchet man colloq. 1 a hired killer. 2 a person employed to carry out a hatchet job. Etymology: ME f. OF hachette dimin. of hache axe f. med.L hapia f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hatchet Hatch"et, n. [F. hachette, dim. of hache ?. See 1st Hatch, Hash.] 1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. 2. Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. --Longfellow.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hatchets) 1. A hatchet is a small axe that you can hold in one hand. N-COUNT 2. If two people bury the hatchet, they become friendly again after a quarrel or disagreement. PHRASE: V inflects

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hach'-et (kashshil): Ps 74:6 the Revised Version (British and American), "hatchet," the King James Version "axes."

See AX.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Small axe.

Moby Thesaurus

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