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cleaver

noun as in cutting instrument

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"As well as being extremely funny, it's very, very sad," said the actor, who will reprise his role as the dashing antagonist Daniel Cleaver.

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In 2001, the first film adaptation starring American actress Zellweger, with Grant as Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, was released.

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It’s a form of protest first popularized by early 20th century suffragettes — in 1914, Mary Richardson used a meat cleaver to slash Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus” in London’s National Gallery — only to fall out of fashion shortly thereafter.

A dad said he was convinced he was going to die after his father-in-law hit him on the back of the head with a meat cleaver while he was eating his dinner.

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"I turned around and I saw him, and he was holding a meat cleaver," he told BBC Essex.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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