What is another word for hatchets?

Pronunciation: [hˈat͡ʃɪts] (IPA)

Hatchets are small, handheld axes used in various activities such as woodworking, camping, and outdoor adventure. Other words synonymous with hatchets include tomahawks, cleavers, adzes, and axes. Tomahawks are often associated with Native American weapons and are typically smaller and lighter than traditional hatchets. Cleavers, on the other hand, are typically used for chopping meat. Adzes are similar to hatchets but are used for shaping and smoothing wood surfaces. Axes are larger and heavier than hatchets and are commonly used for chopping down trees. Regardless of the term used, all of these tools are versatile and useful for various purposes both indoors and outdoors.

What are the hypernyms for Hatchets?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    Axes, garden tools, hand tools, Edged Tools, Forestry Tools, cutting tools.

Usage examples for Hatchets

Casting his eyes upon the vague plateau below he witnessed two-legged creatures pursuing game with stone hatchets; while in the tropical-colored tree-tops nudging apes eyed the contest with malicious regard.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
At certain seasons, these people bring honey and dried venison to the frontier, with an occasional elephant's tusk, and exchange them for cloth, hatchets, arrowheads, and a few simple articles which they have learned to use.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
A tomb of great curiosity was discovered in the year 1685; and celts, and stone hatchets, and other implements, belonging, as it is presumed, to the original inhabitants of the country, have been found beneath the soil.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner

Famous quotes with Hatchets

  • I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.
    Meir Kahane
  • But if men either knew themselves thoroughly, or had the slightest knowledge of God, they would never claim as their own a divine and immortal nature; nor would they think themselves something great because they have made for themselves gridirons, basins, and bowls, because they have made under-shirts, outer-shirts, cloaks, plaids, robes of state, knives, cuirasses and swords, mattocks, hatchets, ploughs. Never, I say, carried away by pride and arrogance, would they believe themselves to be deities of the first rank, and fellows of the highest in his exaltation, because they had devised the arts of grammar, music, oratory, and geometry. For we do not see what is so wonderful in these arts, that because of their discovery the soul should be believed to be above the sun as well as all the stars, to surpass both in grandeur and essence the whole universe, of which these are parts.
    Arnobius

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