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hatchet

noun as in ax

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The conviction of the man known as The Hatchet, infamous for filming himself torturing gay people, is good news.

This is not a hatchet job, and it certainly could have been.

From Kimmel and Kanye burying the hatchet to a telekinetic coffee shop surprise, WATCH our countdown.

And, he added, a mayor would be foolish to attempt to “take a hatchet to the financial industry.”

According to the police report, officers also found a Taser and a hatchet in the house.

The formation of an axe or hatchet, however crude it may have been, would naturally lead to another step in advance.

He had the hatchet face of the clever Yankee, alert, sharply defined, with a high-bridged and rather bold English nose.

To be sure, he might kill the dog with the hatchet, but such butchery was repugnant to him, and he quickly dismissed the idea.

It is not rare to find in primitive submarine formations these singular kinds of passages, which seem cut out with a hatchet.

The planking had been sawed, the timber cut with the hatchet, the ironwork with a file, the sheathing with the chisel.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hatchet, such as: machete, bill, billhook, and tomahawk.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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