1
: a short-handled ax often with a hammerhead to be used with one hand
2
: tomahawk
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Years later, the two had a poolside sit-down at a Los Angeles hotel to bury the hatchet and the two-hour conversation still wasn’t enough to patch things up, Francesa said.
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Mark Morales, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
The legislation also takes a hatchet to amortization, which is the depreciation of non-tangible assets often termed goodwill.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Two weeks after an unprovoked hatchet attack nearly decapitated a man sitting with his wife at a Tucson, Arizona, bus stop, the suspect has been charged with first-degree murder.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025
The men, who’d assembled on the moors hours earlier, were armed with muskets, sticks, hatchets, and heavy blacksmith’s hammers.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Mark Morales, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
The legislation also takes a hatchet to amortization, which is the depreciation of non-tangible assets often termed goodwill.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Two weeks after an unprovoked hatchet attack nearly decapitated a man sitting with his wife at a Tucson, Arizona, bus stop, the suspect has been charged with first-degree murder.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025
The men, who’d assembled on the moors hours earlier, were armed with muskets, sticks, hatchets, and heavy blacksmith’s hammers.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Hatchet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hatchet. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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hatchet
noun
hatch·et
ˈhach-ət 
: a small ax with a short handle
Etymology
Middle English hachet "small ax, hatchet," from early French hachette, literally, "small battle-ax," from hache "battle-ax"; of Germanic origin — related to hash entry 1, hatch entry 4
Medical Definition
hatchet
noun
hatch·et
ˈhach-ət
: a dental excavator
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