Meaning & use
hatchet
A small axe with a short handle, designed to be swung with one hand.
See it in a sentence
He used a hatchet to split kindling before lighting the campfire.
The old hatchet hanging in the shed had a chipped wooden handle.
A note on using this word
The phrase 'bury the hatchet' means to end a conflict and make peace, a figurative use worth knowing separately from the tool itself.
Words with a similar meaning
hand ax
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