Cleaver Definition

klēvər
cleavers
noun
cleavers
A heavy cutting tool with a broad blade, used by butchers.
Webster's New World
A bifacial core tool flaked to produce a straight sharp edge at one end.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Cleaver

Noun

Singular:
cleaver
Plural:
cleavers

Origin of Cleaver

  • From cleave +‎ -er, cf. Middle English clevere.

    From Wiktionary

Cleaver Sentence Examples

  • Buy a full-skirted dress and work that June Cleaver style.

  • I am going to sleep with a meat cleaver under my pillow to be on the safe side.

  • The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things.

  • Naomi Cleaver, writing in the Telegraph, remains unmoved by the threat of terrorism.

  • The two men were hacked to death with a seven-inch butcher's cleaver.

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Words Starting With

CCLCLE

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RERVER

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