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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One of the short lines used on maps to shade or to indicate slopes and their degree and direction.
  2. v. To make hatching on (a map).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as hatching.
  2. To cover with hatchings.

Wiktionary

  1. n. cartography A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Fine Arts) A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See hatching.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

Etymologies

  1. From French hachure ("crosshatching"), from hacher ("to hatch"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, from hacher, to crosshatch; see hatch3. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Squiggled hachure began early and so did stepped triangles, waved lines, and free-standing figures.”

    The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :

  • “` Chaco 'pottery or thought of as closely related to Chaco pottery "and, again, as though clarifying Morris," The so-called non-Chaco pottery of the Chaco period on the La Plata is clearly Mancos Black-on-white decorated with solid elements, lines and dots, and parallel stripes; the so-called Chaco-like is hachure-style Mancos "(ibid., p. 97).”

    The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :

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  • knitandpurl "It was an extreme close-up of an extremely old man, the contours of his face clearly defined by line and shade, hachures on a topographic map."
    White Teeth by Zadie Smith, p 279 of the Vintage International paperback Jan 28, 2011

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