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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hatch•et /ˈhætʃɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Buildinga small, short-handled ax with one end of the head in a blade and the other in the shape of a hammer, made to be used with one hand.
Idioms- bury the hatchet, to put aside one's differences or disagreements;
stop fighting:Let's bury the hatchet and be friends again.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hatch•et (hach′it),USA pronunciation n. - Buildinga small, short-handled ax having the end of the head opposite the blade in the form of a hammer, made to be used with one hand. See illus. under ax.
- a tomahawk.
- Fishhatchetfish.
- Idioms bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited;
make peace. - Idioms take up the hatchet, to begin or resume hostilities;
prepare for or go to war:The natives are taking up the hatchet against the enemy.
v.t. - to cut, destroy, kill, etc., with a hatchet.
- to abridge, delete, excise, etc.:The network censor may hatchet 30 minutes from the script.
- Frankish *hapja kind of knife; akin to Greek kóptein to cut (compare comma, syncope)
- Middle French hachette, diminutive (see -et) of hache ax
- 1300–50; 1670–80, American. for def. 4; Middle English hachet
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