Noun

(organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).

(uncountable) An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.

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(obsolete) Any very fine powder.

Noun

A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.

* 1936 , Laurence Greene, America goes to press: the news of yesterday

I tell you I was strongly tempted to perform a little hatchetation on them. And cigarette smoke? Phew!

* 1976 , Frederick Feikema Manfred, Milk of wolves

They'd carry on worse than Carry Nation did in all her hatchetations .

* 1978 , Joan Swallow Reiter, The Women

Carry's last hatchetation

* 1999 , Karen Joy Fowler, Black glass: short fictions

...a more confrontational shot: Carry in battle dress, threatening the photographer with hatchetation .

* 2001 , Fran Grace, Carry A. Nation: retelling the life

Annie Diggs, a noted suffragist and nationally renowned Populist who later applauded Carry Nation's hatchetation of saloons, gave a lecture in Holton on "The Social Evil."

* 2002 , Bonnie C Harvey, Carry A. Nation: Saloon Smasher and Prohibitionist

Carry Nation's hatchetation , or joint-smashing displays, helped pave the way for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment...