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take off the cauldron
Obs.
in Indian parlance, make peace.
1840
 
Thus to throw up the hatchet, or to put on the great cauldron is to begin a war; to throw the hatchet to the sky, is to wage open and terrible war; to take off the cauldron, or to bury the hatchet is to make peace. . . .