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Axes vs Hatchet - What's the difference?

axes | hatchet |

As verbs the difference between axes and hatchet

is that axes is while hatchet is to cut with a hatchet.

As a noun hatchet is

a small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

axes

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
    • English heteronyms ----

    hatchet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
  • * Longfellow
    • Buried was the bloody hatchet .

    Derived terms

    * bury the hatchet * hatchetation * hatchet-faced * hatchet job * hatchet man

    Verb

  • To cut with a hatchet.