hatchet

Wang delivered spectacularly, becoming the leader’s indispensable hatchet man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

And is it finally time for England to bury the hatchet with Ollie Robinson?

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Legendary rivals Ozzy Lusth and Benjamin “Coach” Wade appeared to bury the hatchet, only for their conflict to reignite soon after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Most famously, Parson Weems invented from whole cloth the story about young Washington taking a hatchet to his father’s cherry tree, then confessing to it.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026

He looks around, finds a sapling that seems to be just right for what he is searching for, and cuts it down with his hatchet.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

The documentary closes on a similar note: Take That are national treasures, their reputation is secure, their hatchets are buried.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

The guests are a bundle of nerves when they arrive, still reeling from Logan’s death and their subsequent hurried, haphazard burying of various hatchets.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

When agents stopped a truck going through a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in Texas earlier this month they found 70 illegal immigrants in the semi-trailer — and walkie-talkie and two hatchets.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

This is perhaps why the title of Aron’s book is taken from Carry Nation, the 19th-century temperance crusader who took hatchets to bar tops and greeted bartenders as “destroyers of men’s souls.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020

There were only a few sailors guarding the cargo, and they quickly decided that tangoing with a pack of angry colonists with hatchets was a bad idea and got out of the way.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin