Hatchetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪt/
• 韻: -ætʃɪt

名詞

hatchet (plural hatchets)

1. A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
   • 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 117:

     “It must be admitted, Nick, you are a very literal logician—‘dog won't eat dog,’ is our English saying. Still the Yankee will fight the Yengeese, it would seem. In a word, the Great Father, in England, has raised the hatchet against his American children.”

   • 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:

     Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter III, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 1158:

     The fellow was armed with a stone-shod spear, a stone knife and a hatchet. In his black hair were several gay-colored feathers.

2. (figurative) Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.

   to bury the hatchet

   hatchet job

   • 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 42:

     “Dat true as missionary! What a soldier do, cap'in, if so much peace? Warrior love a war-path.”
     “I wish it were not so, Nick. But my hatchet is buried, I hope, for ever.”

   • 2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The savagery with which Michael Hofmann can wield a hatchet has earned him unlikely fans outside the literary circuit. A recent issue of Viz ran a cartoon of the critic, poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR Leavis types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance.

派生語

動詞

hatchet (third-person singular simple present hatchets, present participle hatcheting or (rare) hatchetting, simple past and past participle hatcheted or (rare) hatchetted)

1. (transitive) To cut with a hatchet.