hatchet

• n. 柄の短い小さな斧
• vt.柄の短い斧で切る；首を絞める

古フランス語のhache（斧、トマホーク）から。語源はPIE*kop（刻む、割る）で、ship（船）、shape（形）、scapula（肩甲骨）と同じ。

hatchet (n.)

c. 1300 (mid-12c. in surnames), "small axe with a short handle," designed to be used by one hand, from Old French hachete "small combat-axe, hatchet," diminutive of hache "axe, battle-axe, pickaxe," possibly from Frankish *happja or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hapjo- (cognates: Old High German happa "sickle, scythe"), from PIE root *kop- "to beat, strike" (cognates: Greek kopis "knife;" Lithuanian kaplys "hatchet," kapoti "cut small;" Old Church Slavonic skopiti "castrate").

Hatchet-face in reference to one with sharp and prominent features is from 1650s. In Middle English, hatch itself was used in a sense "battle-axe." In 14c., hang up (one's) hatchet meant "stop what one is doing." Phrase bury the hatchet (1794) is from a supposed Native American peacemaking custom. Hatchet-man was originally California slang for "hired Chinese assassin" (1880), later extended figuratively to journalists who attacked the reputation of a public figure (1944).

1. The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.

ジャーナリズム界は彼女が最近撮影した映画に対して大いに中傷した。

2.Will the time never come when we may honorably bury the hatchet ？

私たちは決して体裁よく休戦することはあり得ないのではないでしょうか。

3.She went for him with a hatchet .

彼女は短柄斧を操って彼に飛びかかった。

4.They reckoned he was a hatchet man，out to shred the workforce and crush the union.

彼らは彼が上司から派遣された殺人犯だと推定して、労働者に対して大いに殺意を示し、労働組合を弾圧した。

5.We had been enemies a long time，but after the flood we buried the hatchet .

私たちは長い間敵になってきたが、その洪水を経て私たちはまた仲直りした。