A wooden-handled hatchet.
Etymology
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From Middle English hachet, a borrowing from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache (“axe”), from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”). Cognate with Old High German happa, heppa, habba (“reaper, sickle”), German Hippe (“billhook”). Mostly displaced native Old English handæx, whence Modern English hand axe.
Pronunciation
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hatchet (plural hatchets)
- A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
Derived terms
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Translations
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small axe
- Albanian: latë (sq)
- Bulgarian: брадвичка f (bradvička), томахавка f (tomahavka)
- Catalan: destral (ca) f, destraló m
- Chamicuro: ame
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 斧頭／斧头 (zh) (fǔtou), 斧子 (zh) (fǔzi)
- Czech: sekyra (cs) f, sekera (cs) f, sekerka (cs) f
- Dutch: bijl (nl), handbijl (nl)
- Esperanto: hakileto
- Finnish: kirves (fi), pikkukirves
- French: hachette (fr) f
- Galician: macheta (gl) f, machada (gl) f, brosa (gl) f
- Georgian: ნაჯახი (ka) (naǯaxi)
- German: Beil (de) n
- Hindi: परशु (hi) m (parśu), तवर (hi) m (tavar)
- Hungarian: szekerce (hu)
- Irish: tua (ga) f
- Italian: accetta (it) f
- Japanese: 斧 (ja) (おの, ono)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: تەور (tewr)
- Lao: ຂວານ (lo) (khuān)
- Macedonian: се́кирче n (sékirče), томаха́вка f (tomahávka) (tomahawk)
- Maori: pātītī, panehe, pānekeneke, pīauau
- Mazanderani: تاشه
- Mingrelian: არგუნი (arguni)
- Old English: handæx f
- Ottoman Turkish: بالطه (balta), تبر (teber), مكشاح (mikşah), فاس (fas)
- Persian: تیشه (fa) (tiše)
- Plautdietsch: Biel (nds) n, Akjs f
- Polish: toporek (pl) m
- Portuguese: machadinha f
- Romanian: bardă (ro), toporișcă (ro)
- Russian: топо́рик (ru) m (topórik), топо́р (ru) m (topór), томага́вк (ru) m (tomagávk) (tomahawk)
- Sanskrit: परशु (sa) m (paraśu)
- Scottish Gaelic: làmh-thuagh f
- Sicilian: cugnateḍḍa f
- Sindhi: ڪھاڙي
- Slovak: sekera (sk) f
- Slovene: sekira (sl) f
- Spanish: hacha (es) f
- Tagalog: puthaw
- Thai: ขวาน (th) (kwǎan)
- Tibetan: སྟ་རེ (sta re)
- Turkish: nacak (tr), balta (tr)
- Welsh: llawfwyell f
- Yiddish: העקל n (hekl)
- Yola: hatcheat
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hatchet (third-person singular simple present hatchets, present participle hatcheting or hatchetting, simple past and past participle hatcheted or hatchetted)
- (transitive) To cut with a hatchet.
