Word: hengest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HATCHETMAN: A literal derivation from the military vocabulary of coIonial America, when a hatchetman, or axman. chopped foliage in advance of troops operating in woods or swamp. On the political ladder, a henchman (etymologically, the Anglo-Saxon hengest-man, or horse groom) is one rung above a hanger-on but one rung below a hatchetman...
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