hachure
IPA: hˈætʃˈʊr
noun
- (cartography, chiefly historical) A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.
verb
- To mark a map with hachures.
Examples of "hachure" in Sentences
- Squiggled hachure began early and so did stepped triangles, waved lines, and free-standing figures.
- ` Chaco 'pottery or thought of as closely related to Chaco pottery "and, again, as though clarifying Morris," The so-called non-Chaco pottery of the Chaco period on the La Plata is clearly Mancos Black-on-white decorated with solid elements, lines and dots, and parallel stripes; the so-called Chaco-like is hachure-style Mancos "(ibid., p. 97).