cleaver

See also Cleaver

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːvə(r)

Noun

Wikipedia cleaver (plural cleavers)

1. A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...

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Translations

a squarish knife used for hacking

Bulgarian: сатър (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 菜刀 (zh) (càidāo), 砍肉刀 (zh) (kǎnròudāo) Dutch: mes (nl) n., hakmes (nl) n. Estonian: lihakirves, lihalõikamisnuga Finnish: lihakirves (meat cleaver) French: fendoir (fr) m., couperet (fr) m. German: Cleaver (de) m. Greek: μπαλτάς (el) (baltás) m. Japanese: 包丁 (ja) (ほうちょう, hōchō) Lithuanian: kapoklė

Luxembourgish: Beilen (lb) n. Macedonian: сатар (mk) (sátar) m. Norwegian: Bokmål: kjøttøks (no) m. and f. Nynorsk: kjøttøks (nn) f. Persian: ساتور (fa) (sâtur) Polish: tasak (pl) m. Portuguese: cutelo (pt) m. Russian: большой нож мясника (bol’šój nož mjasniká) m. Spanish: cuchilla (es) f.