Hatchet
['hætʃɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood).
Checked by Elton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
(n.) Specifically, a tomahawk.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Small axe.
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Definition
n. a small axe used by one hand.—adjs. Hatch′et-faced having a thin sharp-featured face; Hatch′ety like a hatchet.—Bury the hatchet to put an end to war from the habit of the North American Indians.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A hatchet seen in a dream, denotes that wanton wastefulness will expose you to the evil designs of envious persons. If it is rusty or broken, you will have grief over wayward people.
Editor: Vince
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A young axe known among Indians as a Thomashawk.
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Examples
- His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and the skin of it was as yellow and dry and withered as an autumn leaf. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And a hatchet, and a saw, and a bit of rope? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His hatchet-face softened for a moment, as if he was sorry for her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The gum is collected by chopping through the bark with a hatchet and placing under each series of cuts a little clay cup formed by the hands of the workman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The savage's bow, his hatchet, and his coat of skins, were sufficiently secured, without law, by the fear of personal resentment and retaliation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The crew had been able to muster but six firearms, so most of them were armed with boat hooks, axes, hatchets and crowbars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Hatchets and crowbars against the yard gates. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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