hatchet : Idioms & Phrases
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broad hatchet
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noun a short-handled hatchet with a broad blade opposite a hammerhead
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claw hatchet
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noun a hatchet that has a cleft for pulling nails
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half hatchet
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noun a hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other
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Hatchet face
- a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet ; hence:
Webster 1913
hatchet job
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noun a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
obloquy; defamation; calumniation; traducement; calumny.
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hatchet man
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noun a professional killer
iceman.
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noun one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
enforcer.
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Hatchet man
Definitions
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A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man. A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with political motive, and sometimes for pay.
Webster 1913
Hatchet-faced
- sharp-visaged. Dryden.
Webster 1913
To bury the hatchet
- to make peace or become reconciled.
- to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.
Webster 1913
To take up the hatchet
- to make or declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the American Indians.
