Usually means: Tool for chopping, splitting wood.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hatchet: Merriam-Webster
  2. hatchet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hatchet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hatchet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hatchet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hatchet, hatchet: Wordnik
  7. hatchet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hatchet: Wiktionary
  9. hatchet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hatchet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hatchet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hatchet: Dictionary.com
  13. hatchet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hatchet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hatchet (book), Hatchet (disambiguation), Hatchet (film), Hatchet (film series), Hatchet (novel), Hatchet, The Hatchet (novel), The Hatchet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hatchet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hatchet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hatchet: Rhymezone
  19. Hatchet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hatchet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HATCHET: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Hatchet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. hatchet: FreeDictionary.org
  24. hatchet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. hatchet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. hatchet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hatchet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hatchet: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. hatchet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hatchet: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hatchet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
noun:  (figurative) Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.
verb:  (transitive) To cut with a hatchet.

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