hatchet

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

• 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.

Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.figuratively

• to bury the hatchet
• hatchet job

To cut with a hatchet.transitive