• Hatchek

    Full definition of hatchek

    Noun

    hatchek

    (plural hatcheks)
      • 1988, Jost Wiedmann and Jürgen Kullmann eds., Cephalopods Present and Past: Otto Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985, page 20The Bathmoceratidae are largely straight shells of Whiterock age, first known from the Å arka (pronounced Sharka from a hatchek over the Å ).
      • 1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide LIV:ii, page 69The printer had no hatchek…to put over DvoÅ™ak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.
      • 2001, Felix K. Ameka, “Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe” in Typological Studies in Language XLIV: Ideophones, eds. Friedrich Karl Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz, page 46, endnote 2The hatchek marks a rising tone.
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