Hatchet
Definitions
Equivalents
37 more languages
Examples
““It must be admitted, Nick, you are a very literal logician—‘dog won't eat⟳ dog,’ is our English saying. Still the Yankee will fight⟳ the Yengeese, it would seem. In a word, the Great Father, in England, has raised the hatchet against his American children.””
“Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.”
“The fellow was armed with a stone-shod spear, a stone knife and a hatchet. In his black hair were several gay-colored feathers.”
“to bury⟳ the hatchet”
“hatchet job”
““Dat true as missionary! What a soldier do, cap'in, if so much peace? Warrior love⟳ a war-path.” “I wish⟳ it were not so, Nick. But my hatchet is buried, I hope⟳, for ever.””
“The savagery with which Michael Hofmann can wield a hatchet has earned him unlikely fans outside the literary circuit. A recent issue⟳ of Viz ran a cartoon of the critic, poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR Leavis types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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