hatchet

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HATCH'ET, noun A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. To take up the hatchet a phrase borrowed from the natives of America, is to make war. To bury the hatchet is to make peace.
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