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cleaver

[klee-ver] / ˈkli vər /
NOUN
cutting instrument
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"One afternoon as I walked in and looked at this, it seemed to me that it had transformed into a meat cleaver. 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

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

The salad master dropped his pan, and the chief cook lost his grip on the cleaver.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer




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