Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Hatchet face}, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a
      hatchet; hence:

   {Hatchet-faced}, sharp-visaged. --Dryden.

   {To bury the hatchet}, to make peace or become reconciled.

   {To take up the hatchet}, to make or declare war. The last
      two phrases are derived from the practice of the American
      Indians.