Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A heavy, broad-bladed knife or hatchet used especially by butchers.
- n. Archaeology A bifacial core tool flaked to produce a straight sharp edge at one end.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which cleaves or sticks. Specifically, a boys' toy, consisting of a piece of soaked leather with a string attached, by which, when the leather is pressed close to a stone, the stone may be lifted; a sucker.
- n. See cleavers, 1.
- n. One who or that which cleaves or splits. Specifically
- n. A heavy knife or long-bladed hatchet used by butchers for cutting carcasses into joints or pieces.
- n. A cutting-tool with a sharp edge, used in place of a wedge for splitting timber.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a butcher's knife having a large square blade
Examples
“The leading nigger had armed himself with a cleaver from the galley, and he grimaced like an ape as he prepared to slice me down.”
“A chef’s knife or cleaver is as sharp as a rapier, but it is not an instrument meant for killing.”
“Hello Kitt- the cleaver is a new tool to me, I'm going to have a go at dividing a chicken into the usual bits soon, and see how that goes.”
“So there is something there that could be exploited by the cleaver, which is definitely better than being exploited themselves.”
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“That same side of the house looks like something was chopped off with a meat cleaver which is essentially what happened and finished with a flat wall with some windows in it that don’t match the windows in the rest of the house.”
“Democrats have accused Republicans of taking a "meat cleaver" to the government, seeking "draconian" cuts that could damage vital services, eliminate hundreds of thousands of federal jobs and destabilize the economic recovery.”
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“` There goes my chance of promotion, 'Garthwaite laughed, as a woman bore down on the wounded man, brandishing a butcher's cleaver.”
“He pulled out a large cleaver and severed a remaining paw.”
“Next to a smoking, tantalizing chicken barbecue, beef taco cooks orchestrating the chuta-chuta dance of a meat cleaver on a chopping block mix their promises with the other cries of commerce.”
“As he spoke late Saturday, the "thump thump" of a cleaver could be heard just outside the unadorned office.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cleaver’.
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Chop
dhar, chop, ax, cleaver, chopfallen, dolabriform, securiform, dolabrate, barong, machete, froe, guloc and 44 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Without a Paddle (2004)
Words from a 2004 'Without a Paddle' film.
outdo, dip, great call, nagging, TGIF, cobweb, earwax, purty, white-water, christen, teem, carny and 10 more...
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utensil strength
sieve, colander, whisk, chinoise, spatula, fork, spork, runcible spoon, tong, mandoline, crockery, ladle and 28 more...
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