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  • They go by many names, from carpal tunnel syndrome to meat cleaver's elbow (chart).

    A Pain For Business 2008

  • This cleaver's an odd one: it's all a single piece of steel, with the long enough for two hands handle shaped from the full tang and rounded out.

    catchup: Saturday: Matrix/shop/gunshow/music/party badger 2003

  • My grandfather felt the cleaver's edge and, as in his chariot, braced his feet apart.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

  • De cleaver's a-comin 'down, when here, wid a duck uf de head, comes Injun right at me, his shoulder under my arm.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • Lanjuinais, alone, who is not a Girondist, but a Catholic and Breton, speaks like a man against this outrageous attack on the nation's representatives They rush at him and assail him in the tribune; the butcher, Legendre, simulating "the cleaver's blow," cries out to him,

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Droops, dies, and falls without the cleaver's stroke.

    The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632

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