cleaver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a heavy knife with a broad, usually rectangular blade, used especially for chopping meat and bones

   The butcher brought the cleaver down cleanly through the joint.

Common collocations

• meat cleaver Noun + noun

From Middle English clevere, 'one who or something that cleaves,' formed from cleave + the agent or instrument suffix -er. The noun became specialized for the broad, heavy cutting tool, which also supports figurative comparisons to anything that divides or penetrates forcefully.

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