hatchet-vetch

(hach’et-vech), n. A plant, Se- curigera Coronilla, the pods of which are falcate and thin-edged. See uasxjitch and Securigert. The Grecians name this, whether it be a Pulse, or an in firm i tie among corn, 7dvcapov: the Latines, of the forme of the seed, Securidaca, and Hedysarum: in English, Axseed, Axwort, Ax-fitch, and hatchet Fitch. Gerarde, Herball (1636), p. 1286.