Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hatchet.

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Examples

  • A small-scale prototype of a “leather” hacket grown in vitro, Victimless Leather is a living layer supported by a biodegradable polymer matrix shaped like a miniature coat, offering the possibility of wearing leather without directly killing an animal.

    Elastic 2008

  • A small-scale prototype of a “leather” hacket grown in vitro, Victimless Leather is a living layer supported by a biodegradable polymer matrix shaped like a miniature coat, offering the possibility of wearing leather without directly killing an animal.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • This ‘heading hill,’ as it was sometimes termed, bears commonly the less terrible name of Hurly-hacket, from its having been the scene of a courtly amusement alluded to by Sir

    The Lady of the Lake 1810

  • The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton

    The Lady of the Lake 1810

  • ‘Some harled him to the Hurly-hacket;’ which consisted in sliding — in some sort of chair, it may be supposed — from top to bottom of a smooth bank.

    The Lady of the Lake 1810

  • This 'heading hill,' as it was sometimes termed, bears commonly the less terrible name of Hurly-hacket, from its having been the scene of a courtly amusement alluded to by

    The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

  • 'Some harled him to the Hurly-hacket;' which consisted in sliding -- in some sort of chair, it may be supposed -- from top to bottom of a smooth bank.

    The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

  • The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton

    The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

  • A hacket got into Jim Calhoun's Big East teleconference and ...

    BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs 2010

  • Direktøren for Storbritannien´s ledende klima forskningsenhed, Phil Jones, har fortalt Investigate Magazine´s TGIF Edition, at hans organisation er blevet hacket, og at data der farer rundt på internettet synes at være ægte.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2009

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