cleaver
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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
I came to love the satisfying thunk of the cleaver hitting the cutting board.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 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 dirt along the riverbed today looks as though somebody took a cleaver to a chocolate cake.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023
The demons called it a hatchet, but it was really a squarish sword, looking much like a cleaver except that the balance was truer.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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