take up the hatchet

== English == === Etymology === Referring to Native Americans' use of the tomahawk. === Verb === take up the hatchet (third-person singular simple present takes up the hatchet, present participle taking up the hatchet, simple past took up the hatchet, past participle taken up the hatchet) (idiomatic, archaic) To declare war or go to war. Antonym: bury the hatchet ==== Translations ==== === References === “hatchet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.