General Meanings:
Warning Hatchet as a dream symbol has a similar meaning as the ax, it can warn against harm which can be caused through your own destructive energies and actions, but also the dream of hatchet may announce you success through hard work.
Be more realistic Old dream books understand the hatchet occasionally as an indication that you have to get rid with certain hopes, because your drawbacks will not let you to reach them, especially if you keep it in your hand.
Traditional Meanings:
European (Judeo-Christian)
- Warning against bad people if see hatchet – In a dream you see a hatchet then is a sign of impending danger, sorrow or grief and because of envious people. You will have an ability to expose the insidious plans and to prepare for them;
- Disputes if grind a hatchet or see grinding – In the dream you are grinding a hatchet, then indicates strife and disagreement in near future because of misunderstanding;
- Progress if work with a hatchet – When you are working with a hatchet in your dream, then you may expect good progress at work or with the plans you do;
- Do not trust if see others working with a hatchet – This dream marks that you have to be very attentive and do not make and trust new people, do not make too fast close friendship;
- Sorrow if have a rusty or broken hatchet – In the dream your hatchet is broken and rusty, then this denotes that wayward people will make you sorrow because of their insensibility.
Hindu (Hinduism)
- Worries if see a hatchet – The hatchet in a dream means that you will have had nothing good but only trouble.
Arabian (Islamic)
- Danger if see or have in your hand a hatchet – This dream signifies that you to be careful, you are in danger of all places. The danger in on the corner.
* Please, see meaning of ax.