1
: a short-handled ax often with a hammerhead to be used with one hand
2
: tomahawk
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While a third season of Dead City has not yet been announced, Gimple ensures that any future stories told about Negan and Maggie won’t be overly friendly now that the two have buried the hatchet.
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Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
The Los Angeles Police Department charged him with assault with a deadly weapon the next day after the rapper allegedly entered the wrong home while looking for his girlfriend and swung a hatchet at two people.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
The common epilepsy drug carbamazepine was developed to treat the shooting nerve pain of trigeminal neuralgia, which is described as feeling like a hatchet to the head and is often called the suicide pain.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Nation was known throughout the Midwest for her assault on saloons and bars with her hatchet.
—Arkansas Online, 10 May 2025
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Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
The Los Angeles Police Department charged him with assault with a deadly weapon the next day after the rapper allegedly entered the wrong home while looking for his girlfriend and swung a hatchet at two people.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
The common epilepsy drug carbamazepine was developed to treat the shooting nerve pain of trigeminal neuralgia, which is described as feeling like a hatchet to the head and is often called the suicide pain.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Nation was known throughout the Midwest for her assault on saloons and bars with her hatchet.
—Arkansas Online, 10 May 2025
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“Hatchet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hatchet. Accessed 30 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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