Hatchet Definition
hăchĭt
hatchets
noun
hatchets
A small ax with a short handle, for use with one hand: often the part of the head opposite the cutting edge is shaped like the striking portion of a hammerhead.
Webster's New World
A tomahawk.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- tomahawk
- small ax
- dolabra
- axe
- machete
- smoke a peace pipe
- come-to-terms
- settle one's differences
- stop fighting
- make-peace
- billhook
- bill
- ax
verb
To cut with a hatchet.
Wiktionary
idiom
bury the hatchet
- to stop fighting; make peace
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Hatchet
Noun
Singular:
hatchet
Plural:
hatchetsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hatchet
Origin of Hatchet
Middle English hachet from Old French hachete diminutive of hache ax of Germanic origin Old High German happa sickle
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From French hachette, diminutive of hache (“axe”), from Old High German hāppa (“reaper, sickle”).
From Wiktionary
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