Look up: cleaver

1. cleaver
   Type: Term Pronunciation: klē′ver Definitions: 1. A heavy knife for cutting or chopping.
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2. cleaver
   [n] - a butcher`s knife having a large square blade
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3. Cleaver
   Cleav'er noun One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
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4. cleaver
   A heavy knife for cutting or chopping. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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5. cleaver
   meat cleaver noun a butcher`s knife having a large square blade
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6. Cleaver
   • (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher`s instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
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7. cleaver
   heavy, axlike knife used since the Middle Pleistocene era to cut through animal bone and meat; in modern times the cleaver, generally made of iron ... [1 related articles]
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8. Cleaver
   Cleaver or Goose Grass (Galium aparine) is a British plant with rough stems and six to eight leaves in a whorl with distinctive curled prickles. The flowers are axillary and greenish white. The fruit is rough with hooked prickles and the seed vessels are globular and tenacious, clinging to the coat ...
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9. Cleaver
   (tool) , Northern Cape Province, South Africa In archaeology, a `cleaver` is a name given to a type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic. Cleavers are a little like hand axes. They are large and oblong or U-shaped tools meant to be held in the hand, but unlike hand axes, they have a...
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10. Cleaver
    (knife) A `cleaver` is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed hatchet. It is used mostly for hacking through bones as a kitchen knife or butcher knife, and can also be used for crushing via its broad side, typically garlic. Design : In contrast to ot...
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11. Cleaver
    (The Sopranos) Plot: Cleaver—originally titled Pork Store Killer—stars protagonist Michael (a nod to actor Michael Imperioli), nicknamed "the Butcher". When Christopher proposes the plot to writer J.T. Dolan, he says the film is about a "young wisegu...
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12. Cleaver
    (geometry) In geometry, a `cleaver` of a triangle is a line segment that bisects the perimeter of the triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the three sides. See also : Notes and references:
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