- a small axe (= a tool with a heavy metal blade for cutting things up) with a short handleWord OriginMiddle English: from Old French hachette, diminutive of hache ‘axe’, from medieval Latin hapia, of Germanic origin.
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Idioms
See hatchet in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybury the hatchet | bury your differences
- to stop not being friendly and become friends again
- After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet.
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