broad hatchet

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   a short-handled hatchet with a broad blade opposite a hammerhead

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Questions about broad hatchet

What does broad hatchet mean?

broad hatchet means "a short-handled hatchet with a broad blade opposite a hammerhead".

Is broad hatchet a common word?

broad hatchet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.