cleaver

"You can see it as a domestic narrative and then you can see it as a jumbo meat cleaver".

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

At Wing, he serves sea cucumber inside a crispy spring roll, dramatically sliced tableside with a Chinese cleaver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

A Santoku knife is a Japanese chef’s knife with small indentations along the straight blade, in the style of a Chinese slicing cleaver.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

The flesh is soft enough to cube up without resorting to the kind of heavy-duty cleaver you’d take to a leathery kabocha.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

While one hand holds on to a few sturdy leaves, the other wields the cleaver, separating the fruit from the tree.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Then comes the sound, clams tossed in hot pans, cleavers pounding roast pork, a Cantonese rock ballad barely rising above the crowd.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

During the last amnesty in 2006, people handed over more than 12,500 blades to police without facing criminal charges - they included machetes, swords, meat cleavers, bayonets and axes.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Her mother, Ann, gave her honeysuckle flowers to suck on hot days and often added pineapple weed to lemonade or cleavers and violets to tea.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

A tall, sleek, metal-and-glass table, like something from a science lab or hospital operating room, is festooned with eight meat cleavers suspended on elegant chains, four dangling from either side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2019

By the time I arrived, I had enough anger to fend off a thousand flying cleavers.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan