Hatchet

Definition: Hatchet

Hatchet

Noun

1. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American indians.

2. Short ax used to chop wood.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hatchet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Hatchet

Killing

Butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner. (punishment); man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder.

Pacification

Raise a siege, lift a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace; (concord); be pacified; come round.

Prediction

Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy;Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water, Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy; by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

Sharpness

Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Hatchet

Let's bury the hatchet (MIXED EMOTIONS; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

Bury the Hatchet (1937)

The Hatchet Man (1932)

Ambrose's Little Hatchet (1915)

Mrs. Nation and Her Hatchet Brigade (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• El hacha / Hatchet (reference)

• Hatchet (reference)

• Hatchet With Connections (reference)

• Tsali's Hatchet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hatchet for the Honeymoon - 1969 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bury the Hatchet (reference)

• Bury The Hatchet [Explicit Cover] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Milwaukee 6514-21 18 Volt Sawzall, The Hatchet Kit (reference)

• Milwaukee 6514-25 18-Volt Hatchet, Circular Saw, Driver-Drill, Radio and Worklight Combo Kit with Contractor Bag (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Articles of whale-boat gear. 1. Lantern keg containing matches, bread,&c. 2 Boat compass. 3. Water keg. 4. Piggin for bailing water 5. Waif for signaling. 6. Tub oar crotch. 7. Double oar-lock 8. Large line in line-tub. 9. Knife to cut line. 10 Row-lock. 11. Hatchet 12. Grapnel. 13. Drag or drug to retard whale. 14. Canvas nipper. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fell on hose, hose wetting man, fireman putting out flames. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trials of a hatchet man. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Business revival" hatchet threatening "Depression" vulture. Credit: Library of Congress.

Burying the hatchet!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cheyenne, Wyo.--Indian and cowboy have buried the hatchet and smoked the pipe of peace. Credit: Library of Congress.

White migrant worker with hatchet and stakes to be used in setting up new camp near Harlingen, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hatchet": broad hatchet ♦ bury the hatchet ♦ by a balanced hatchet ♦ claw hatchet ♦ half hatchet ♦ Hatchet face ♦ hatchet job ♦ hatchet man ♦ take up the hatchet ♦ throw the hatchet ♦ To bury the hatchet ♦ To take up the hatchet. Additional references.

Beginning with "hatchet": hatchet-burying, Hatchet-faced, hatchet-man, hatchet-men.

Albanian

tokmak (beetle, ram, rammer), sakicë, sëpatë luftimi (battle axe), nagaçe, latore (small axe), latë (coupon, ticket). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فأس صغيرة, ‏البليطة. (various references)

Basque

haizkora (axe). (various references)

Bulgarian 

томахавка (tomahawk), брадвичка. (various references)

Chinese 

柴刀, 斧� � (ax), 斧子 (axe), 斧 . (various references)

Czech

sekyrka (chopper). (various references)

Danish

skovoekse, bindoekse. (various references)

Dutch

houthakkersbijl. (various references)

Farsi 

تیشه , تبرکوچک , ساتور, باتبرجنگ کردن . (various references)

Finnish

piilu. (various references)

French

hachette. (various references)

German

beil (ax, axe, cleaver). (various references)

Greek 

μπαλτάσ (chopper, cleaver), πέλεκυσ (ax), πέλεκας (axe, chopper, woodpecker), τσεκούρι υλοτομίας, τσεκουράκι, τάπητασ (carpet). (various references)

Hebrew 

קר�"ום (adze, axe), כילף (axe), �'רזן קטן, �'רזן (axe, hack). (various references)

Hungarian

szekerce, fejsze (adze, ax, axe, cleaver), bárd (adz, adze, bard, blade, hacker, pole axe). (various references)

Indonesian

beliung (adze, carpenter adze, pick, pickax). (various references)

Italian

scure (ax, axe), ascia (adze, ax, axe), accetta (ax, axe, chopper, it is accepted, you accept). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薪割り (axe, wood-chopping), 斧 (axe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おの (axe), まきわり (axe, wood-chopping). (various references)

Manx

teigh (axe, chopper). (various references)

Norwegian

stridsøks. (various references)

Occitan

destral (axe). (various references)

Pig Latin

atchethay.(various references)

Portuguese

machado (ax, axe), machadinha (ax, axe, chopper, cleaver, logger, log-man). (various references)

Romanian

toporaş, topor (ax, axe, cleaver), secure (ax, axe, halberd, Halbert), bardã, baltag (ax, axe, halberd). (various references)

Russian 

топорик (puffin). (various references)

Scottish

tuagh (axe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sekirica, sekira (ax, axe). (various references)

Spanish

hacha de mano, hacha (ax, axe, chopper, dab, hack, sax, torch), segur, mano de hacha. (various references)

Swedish

yxa (ax, axe, chop, cut, hack). (various references)

Thai

ขวาน�"้ามเล็กๆ. (various references)

Turkish

savaş baltası (battle axe, broad-ax, tomahawk), nacak, küçük balta, balta (ax, axe, bill, broad-ax, chopper, cleaver). (various references)

Ukrainian

сокира (ax, axe), томагавк (tomahawk). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngã lòng, nói phóng đại đã mất thì cho mất hết, nói ngoa, gây chiến tranh lại khai chiến cường điệu, chán nản (chop, crest-fallen, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, despondingly, dispiritedly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, heartsick, heavy, long, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenful, spleenish, spleeny). (various references)

gin. (various references)

secure, securem, securi, securibus, securim, securis, securium, securum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hatchet": hatchets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hatchet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catcheth, Hache, hachet, hatcet, hatche, hatcheth, hatchite, hatchset, hathe, Hethcote, heuchter, khatchik, Matchet, matcheth, Natchet, Patchet, satchet, watchet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chetah, thatch.

-2 letters: cheat, cheth, hatch, heath, tacet, tache, teach, tecta, theca, theta.

-3 letters: ache, cate, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hate, hath, heat, heth, tace, tach, tact, tate, teat, teth, thae, that.

-4 letters: ace, act, ate, att, cat, eat, eta, eth, hae, hah, hat, heh, het, tae, tat, tea, tet, the.

-5 letters: ae, ah.

+1 letter: hatchets, thatched, thatcher, thatches.

+2 letters: hatchment, shtetlach, thatchers, thatchier, toothache.

+3 letters: deathwatch, hatchments, nuthatches, thatchiest, toothaches.

+4 letters: chaetognath, chitchatted, hypothecate.

+5 letters: autochthones, chaetognaths, chrestomathy, deathwatches, hypothecated, hypothecates, hypothecator, hypothetical, photocathode, tracheophyte.