hatchet🔊

A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

💬 Quotations

Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

The fellow was armed with a stone-shod spear, a stone knife and a hatchet. In his black hair were several gay-colored feathers.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot

(figurative) Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.

To cut with a hatchet.

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