The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

by Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
You can expect a period of disturbing predica- ments, domestic and /or busi- ness, if your dream involved using a hatchet to chop any thing, unless is was used to split kindling wood, in which case it forecasts a reconciliation. To sharpen a hatchet signifies an increased income.

See also Ax.

Strangest Dream Explanations

by Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Dreams of a hatchet represent that you are chopping down debris that stands in the way of you accessing to your true path; you are cutting through the jungle of your mind to find certainty and clarity.

See Knife and Kill.

Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
A hatchet seen in a dream, denotes that wanton wastefulness will expose you to the evil designs of envious persons.

If it is rusty or broken, you will have grief over wayward people.