in Mining, an opening into a mine, or in search of one. The term hatchets is also applied to the earthen dams used in Cornwall to prevent the water that issues from the stream-works and tin-washes from running into the fresh rivers.

or Hatchets, properly the grate or frame of cross-bars laid over a ship's deck, now denominated "hatch-bars." The lid or cover of a hatchway is also called hatchets. Hatch is sometimes applied to the opening in the ship's deck; but this is properly called the hatchway.