Definition of Cleaver

1. Noun. A butcher's knife having a large square blade.

Exact synonyms: Chopper, Meat Cleaver
Generic synonyms: Knife
Derivative terms: Chop, Chop, Cleave

Definition of Cleaver

1. n. One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

Definition of Cleaver

1. Noun. A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cleaver

1. a heavy knife [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cleaver

1. A heavy knife for cutting or chopping. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleaver

cleavage cavity
cleavage cell
cleavage division
cleavage furrows
cleavage lines
cleavage product
cleavage site
cleavage spindle
cleavages
cleave
cleaved
cleaved cell
cleavelandite
cleavelandites
cleaver (current term)
cleavers
cleaves
cleaveth
cleaving
cleche
clechy
cleck
clecked
clecking
clecks
cledge
cledgy
cledonomancy
cleek

Literary usage of Cleaver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior and Common Pleas by Ohio Superior Court (Montgomery Co.), Oscar M. Gottschall, Ohio Superior Court (Montgomery County) (1900)
"On August 6, 1866, the board of education entered into a contract with cleaver and Crew for the erection of a school house 30 feet long and 24 feet wide, ..."

2. The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year (1817)
"William cleaver, D; D. was born about the year 17*2. His father, the late Rev. W. cleaver, MA of Lincoln college, Oxford, was a clergyman of the Church of ..."

3. The Necessity for Criminal Appeal: As Illustrated by the Maybrick Case and by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick, Joseph Hiam Levy (1899)
"AFFIDAVIT OF MR RS cleaver. " In the matter of Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, a prisoner under ... I, Richard Stewart cleaver, senior member of the firm ..."

4. The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of Those by Benjamin Brook (1813)
"Mr. cleaver and Mr. Dod were joint authors of " An Exposition on the ten Commandments," for which they were usually- called ..."

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