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cleaver

[klee-ver] / ˈkli vər /
NOUN
cutting instrument
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"You can see it as a domestic narrative and then you can see it as a jumbo meat cleaver".

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

So it is that I gained life lessons from a kitchen knife: a 1-pound, 8.6-inch carbon-steel Chinese cleaver I picked up on a whim in Lower Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Instead of crossed swords, a butcher’s knife, a cleaver and a honing steel cross behind a crest with paintings of a wheel of cheese, a lobster, a bottle of wine, a head of cattle.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

They play with the locks on your door while you are napping and cleaver banana plants in the middle of the night.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

In one, a young boy is cutting down a cluster of palm fruits with a silver cleaver.

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




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