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Definition of hatchet in English: hatchetnoun ˈhatʃɪtˈhætʃət A small axe with a short handle for use in one hand. Example sentencesExamples - The damage to the limestone monument appears to have been carried out with a heavy instrument such as a hatchet, since there are large indentations on the remaining plinths which managed to withstand the attack.
- It being dark I could not give a death blow; the hatchet glanced from his head.
- Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
- Right at the start we find Colin, the hero, who's come to visit his poor old mum, standing in the kitchen, fantasising about taking a hatchet to her.
- Beside her lay the bloodied hatchet used to kill her.
- The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
- I look up at the hammers, vise-grips, and hatchets hanging above me.
- A police spokesman said several reports followed of a man wielding two hatchets or a small axe.
- It was a small hatchet; a leather gripping wrapped around the handle, the blade lying on its side.
- A 19-YEAR-OLD was chased to his home by a 25-year-old man carrying a hatchet and a knife, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.
- Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
- Once the Swiss began to retreat, they were pursued by mobs of bystanders without firearms who hacked them to death with knives, pikes, and hatchets, and tore their uniforms to pieces to make trophies.
- Among the ancient Peruvians large clubs of wood and stone, and also hatchets have been excavated - reason enough for the production of serious skull injuries.
- The public was provided with hatchets with which, if they wanted to, they could attack the objects and paintings exhibited.
- A mallet, a block plane with front horn, and a small hatchet are located below the framing square.
- The Court was told that the two men used an imitation firearm, a hatchet and a hammer in the course of the robbery.
- He starts a fight with the low-class tenants to draw the attention of the leading group of mobsters, the ‘Axe Gang,’ who descend on the slum in tuxedoes and top hats and wielding hatchets.
- He had survival gear, rope, a bowie knife, a hatchet.
- On his left hung some long axes, some double edged and still others were hand axes, hatchets.
- A long handle version is about 36 inches long; a short handle, like a hatchet, is 16 to 20 inches.
Synonyms axe, cleaver, mattock, tomahawk British chopper
Phrases End a quarrel or conflict and become friendly. Example sentencesExamples - Bury the hatchet? How very boring. The art of feuding is in a sorry state.
- Sounds like the hatchet has been well and truly buried - the question, though, is between whose shoulder blades?
- It is time for the IHF and the coach to bury their hatchets and make their peace with Dhanraj Pillai.
- That means that Dainty must find a more congenial way to bury all hatchets and bring all disputing parties to the same table; if he cannot or will not do that, his days of leadership of US cricket would seem to be numbered.
- Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency.
Synonyms pardon, forgive, grant an amnesty to, amnesty
Origin Middle English: from Old French hachette, diminutive of hache 'axe', from medieval Latin hapia, of Germanic origin. English took over French hachette in the Middle Ages. It derives from hache ‘an axe’— see hash. To bury the hatchet, ‘end a quarrel or conflict’, refers to a Native American custom which involved burying a hatchet or tomahawk to mark the conclusion of a peace treaty between warring groups. The custom is described as early as 1680; the current sense of the phrase emerged around 70 years later. In 1974 the then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson observed wryly of his Cabinet: ‘I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up if necessary.’ Since the 1940s a hatchet man has been somebody employed to carry out controversial or disagreeable tasks, such as dismissing people from their jobs or writing journalistic pieces to destroy a person's reputation. The original hatchet man, in the USA during the late 19th century, was a hired Chinese assassin who carried a hatchet with the handle cut off.
Definition of hatchet in US English: hatchetnounˈhaCHətˈhætʃət A small ax with a short handle for use in one hand. Example sentencesExamples - The damage to the limestone monument appears to have been carried out with a heavy instrument such as a hatchet, since there are large indentations on the remaining plinths which managed to withstand the attack.
- The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
- The Court was told that the two men used an imitation firearm, a hatchet and a hammer in the course of the robbery.
- It was a small hatchet; a leather gripping wrapped around the handle, the blade lying on its side.
- A 19-YEAR-OLD was chased to his home by a 25-year-old man carrying a hatchet and a knife, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.
- Among the ancient Peruvians large clubs of wood and stone, and also hatchets have been excavated - reason enough for the production of serious skull injuries.
- Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it.
- He had survival gear, rope, a bowie knife, a hatchet.
- The public was provided with hatchets with which, if they wanted to, they could attack the objects and paintings exhibited.
- Beside her lay the bloodied hatchet used to kill her.
- A police spokesman said several reports followed of a man wielding two hatchets or a small axe.
- A mallet, a block plane with front horn, and a small hatchet are located below the framing square.
- A long handle version is about 36 inches long; a short handle, like a hatchet, is 16 to 20 inches.
- Right at the start we find Colin, the hero, who's come to visit his poor old mum, standing in the kitchen, fantasising about taking a hatchet to her.
- I look up at the hammers, vise-grips, and hatchets hanging above me.
- On his left hung some long axes, some double edged and still others were hand axes, hatchets.
- Once the Swiss began to retreat, they were pursued by mobs of bystanders without firearms who hacked them to death with knives, pikes, and hatchets, and tore their uniforms to pieces to make trophies.
- It being dark I could not give a death blow; the hatchet glanced from his head.
- Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
- He starts a fight with the low-class tenants to draw the attention of the leading group of mobsters, the ‘Axe Gang,’ who descend on the slum in tuxedoes and top hats and wielding hatchets.
Synonyms axe, cleaver, mattock, tomahawk
Phrases End a quarrel or conflict and become friendly. Example sentencesExamples - Sounds like the hatchet has been well and truly buried - the question, though, is between whose shoulder blades?
- It is time for the IHF and the coach to bury their hatchets and make their peace with Dhanraj Pillai.
- Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency.
- That means that Dainty must find a more congenial way to bury all hatchets and bring all disputing parties to the same table; if he cannot or will not do that, his days of leadership of US cricket would seem to be numbered.
- Bury the hatchet? How very boring. The art of feuding is in a sorry state.
Synonyms pardon, forgive, grant an amnesty to, amnesty
Origin Middle English: from Old French hachette, diminutive of hache ‘ax’, from medieval Latin hapia, of Germanic origin. |