hatchet-stake

(hach’et-stak), n. A small anvil from 2 to 10 inches wide, used in bending thin metals. hatchet tin, hatchet tine (hach’et-in), n. [After the English chemist Charles Hatchett (1765- 1847), the discoverer of columbium and tantalum.} 1. A fatty substance occurring in thin flaky veins in the argillaceous ironstone of Merao in Wales and in other localities. It is like wax or spermaceti in consistence, of a yellowish- _ white or greenish-yellow color, and inodorous when cold, but of a slightly bituminous odor when heated, or after 2735 fusion. It is also called adipocere mineral and mineral tallow. (See adipocerc.) It consists of 86 per cent. of carbon and 14 of hydrogen. Also hatchettite. 2. A soft mineral containing 80 per cent. of earbon and 20 of hydrogen, found in cavities of carboniferous rocks in Saxony. Also called chrism at in, chrisma tine.