English

Proper noun

Hatchek

1. A surname​.

Derived terms

• Hatchek’s pit

English

Noun

hatchek ‎(plural hatcheks)

1. Rare spelling of háček.
   • 1988, Jost Wiedmann and Jürgen Kullmann [eds.], Cephalopods Present and Past: O.H. Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985, page 20

     The Bathmoceratidae are largely straight shells of Whiterock age, first known from the Šarka (pronounced Sharka from a hatchek over the Š).

   • 1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide LIV:ii, page 69

     The printer had no hatchek…to put over Dvořak’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 2

     The hatchek marks a rising tone.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:hatchek.