hatchet
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- noun
- /ˈhæʧɪt/
:
hacha
- With a quick motion, she picked up the hatchet to clear the small branches in her way.
And then out of nowhere a man dressed in all white smashed through the car window with a hatchet shouting about trespassing.
- And then out of nowhere a man dressed in all white smashed through the car window with a hatchet shouting about trespassing.
- These spirits and ships were arriving with swords and daggers and all the hatchets and then guns and different kinds of guns, hunting guns and other kinds of guns.
- Something happen, fire, hatchet, you know, accident, something like a prosthetic.
Examples
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Each carried a hatchet at shoulder arms and appeared ready to use it.
Fiction book (1992) -
And a hatchet. Chester, a hatchet as sharp as the devil himself is what I asked for.
Fiction book (1995) -
Go get a hatchet and help me cut my pumpkin loose from the vine.
Fiction book (1994) -
On this desk is a hatchet resting in a block of wood, poised like a judge's hammer.
Fiction book (1998) -
Pa starts swinging the hatchet and splintering wood off in chunks.
Fiction book (1998) -
The carpenter used a hatchet to shape the wooden beams for the house.
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He swung the hatchet to chop firewood for the campfire.
Synonyms
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9.6
A small axe used as a tool and a weapon by people of North America
A small axe with a curved, split back used to pull nails and cut wood
A small axe that has one flat side for hammering and one sharp side for chopping wood
A small axe with a short handle and a wide blade used to cut and shape wood
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
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8.5
A person hired to do unpleasant jobs like firing workers or ruining someone's reputation
A small axe that has one flat side for hammering and one sharp side for chopping wood
- Literature
A woman hired to do unpleasant, tough jobs like firing people for someone in power
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Hatchet comes from the French word hache meaning 'axe' plus the small ending -ette meaning 'little', so it originally meant 'little axe'. That's why a hatchet is a small, one-handed axe used for chopping wood or as a weapon.