Tomahawk
an Indian hatchet or ax used in war and in the chase, not only in hand-to-hand combats, but also by being thrown to a considerable distance so as to strike the object with the A COUNT LYOF TOLSTOY ward traveled extensively. In 1861 he took up permanent residence on his country estate. Among his earliest works works are: "Detsvo" (Childhood), "Otrchestvo" (Boyhood), and "Iunost" (Childhood), (Youth); also "Cossacks," "Sevastopol," and the poll of the ax, to meet one passsharp edge. The native tomahawks have but steel tomahawks are supplied to the heads of stone attached by thongs, etc., Indians by the governments and traders with whom they deal, and a pipe is usudrilled through the bottom of the bowl ally attached to the poll. A hole is TOMAHAWK ing through the length of the handle.
As a nautical term, a poleax. To bury the tomahawk means to make peace; it being the custom of the Indians to bury the tomahawk during the time of peace; so to dig up the tomahawk means to go to war, to fall into dispute.
TOMALES (-mä'les) BAY, an arm of the Pacific, on the coast of California, 35 miles N. W. of San Francisco.