noun. A heavy, broad-bladed knife or hatchet used especially by butchers.

noun. A bifacial core tool flaked to produce a straight sharp edge at one end.

noun. That which cleaves or sticks.

noun. See cleavers, 1.

noun. One who or that which cleaves or splits. Specifically

noun. A heavy knife or long-bladed hatchet used by butchers for cutting carcasses into joints or pieces.

noun. A cutting-tool with a sharp edge, used in place of a wedge for splitting timber.

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

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

noun. a butcher's knife having a large square blade

"The leading nigger had armed himself with a cleaver from the galley, and he grimaced like an ape as he prepared to slice me down."

butcher's cleaver  

cleave  

knife  

Beaver  Cheever  Seaver  achiever  beaver  

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