We hacked away reckless choppin' through wire stays and ropes until we has it all clear - Torchy, Private Sec. by Sewell Ford

I have often thought that if the Germans had been true to their principles and their programme if after proclaiming that they meant to win by sheer strength and that they recognized no other right they had continued as they began and had battered and hacked burned and killed without fear or pity a certain reluctant admiration for them might have been felt in this country - England and the War by Walter Raleigh

He hacked over to Mountfield to see Jim and Cicely - The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall