hatchet

A wooden-handled hatchet.

Meanings

Noun

A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

Verb

To cut with a hatchet.

Origin

From Middle English hachet, a borrowing from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache, from Frankish *hapja, *happija, from Proto-Germanic *hapjō, *habjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kop-. Cognate with Old High German happa, heppa, habba, German Hippe. Mostly displaced native , whence Modern English hand axe.

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