different between hatchet vs hatchek

English

Etymology

From Middle English hachet, a borrowing from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache (“axe”), from Frankish *hapja, *happija, from Proto-Germanic *hapj?, *habj? (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”). Cognate with Old High German happa, heppa, habba (“reaper, sickle”), German Hippe (“billhook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæt??t/
• Rhymes: -æt??t

Noun

hatchet (plural hatchets)

1. A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

     Buried was the bloody hatchet.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cut with a hatchet.

English

Noun

hatchek (plural hatcheks)

1. Rare spelling of há?ek.
   • 1988, Jost Wiedmann and Jürgen Kullmann [eds.], Cephalopods Present and Past: O.H. Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985, page 20

     The Bathmoceratidae are largely straight shells of Whiterock age, first known from the Šarka (pronounced Sharka from a hatchek over the Š).

   • 1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide LIV:ii, page 69

     The printer had no hatchek…to put over Dvo?ak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.

   • 2001, Felix K. Ameka, “Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe” in Typological Studies in Language XLIV: Ideophones, eds. Friedrich Karl Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz, page 46, endnote 2

     The hatchek marks a rising tone.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hatchek.