| 单词 | war-hatchet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar-hatchet war-hatchet n. a hatchet used by the North American Indians to symbolize the declaration or cessation of hostilities (see quots. and cf. hatchet n. Phrases 1a). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > call to arms > by symbol fire cross1523 fiery cross1587 crostarie1685 war-kettle1754 war-hatchet1760 war-post1826 war-arrow1865 1760 G. Groghan Jrnl. 4 Dec. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) I. 116 That you [sc. chiefs and warriors]..may..bury the War Hatchet in the Bottomless Pitt. 1796 J. Wolcot Wks. IV. 485 Gentle Reader, Wouldst thou not have imagined that the war hatchet was buried for ever? a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 72 He lifts the war hatchet against the nation which has injured them. 1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer II. xv. 247 Our great fathers, across the Salt Lake, have sent each other the war-hatchet. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. ix. 224 The bundle of arrows wrapped in a rattlesnake's skin, or the blood-red war-hatchet struck into the war-post. < as lemmas |
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