“hatchets” is a form of
hatchet
/ˈhæt͡ʃɪt/ noun, verb
Forms hatchets hatcheting hatchetting hatcheted hatchetted
- noun A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
- noun (figurative) Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism. “to bury the hatchet”
- verb (transitive) To cut with a hatchet.
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Etymology
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”), Dutch heep, hiep (“billhook”), and Ancient Greek κοπίς (kopís). Mostly displaced native Old English handæx, whence Modern English hand axe.
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [F. hachette, dim. of hache Hatch, Hash.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hatchet”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details