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