English
Etymology
From cleave + -er ; compare (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle English clevere .
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -iːvə(r)
Noun
A cleaver.
cleaver (plural cleavers )
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 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:...
1946 , Mervyn Peake , Titus Groan
Concurrently with Flay's visualization of the cleaver falling—the cleaver fell.
( music , Bahamas ) A type of clave , or rhythm stick , a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
( figurative ) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal , rejection , or removal .
2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian [1] :Conte has broken the mould further with the suggestion he might escape the Abramovich cleaver , becoming the first of his line to leave by his own volition.
Synonym: axe
Usage notes
As a musical instrument, cleaver is normally used only in the plural, just like the more common synonym claves , which is far more often used internationally and is better known as a part of Cuban music. In the Bahamas, cleavers is the more common terminology.
Translations
a squarish knife used for hacking
Afrikaans: hakmes
Albanian: hanxhar (sq) m
Arabic: ساطور m ( satur ) , الساطور ( al-satur )
Moroccan Arabic: شقور m ( šəqur )
Aragonese: gotiel m
Armenian: հերձիչ ( herjičʻ ) , ճեղքող ( čeġkʻoġ )
Belarusian: дровокол m ( drovokol )
Bengali: কাটারী ( kaṭari )
Bulgarian: сатъ́р (bg) m ( satǎ́r )
Burmese: ခုတ်ဓားမ ( hkutdha:ma. )
Catalan: fulla de carnisser f
Cebuano: puthaw
Chinese:
Cantonese: 菜刀 ( coi3 dou1 )
Mandarin: 菜刀 (zh) ( càidāo ) , 砍肉刀 ( kǎnròudāo )
Czech: sekáček (cs) m
Danish: kødøkse c
Dutch: mes (nl) n , hakmes (nl) n
Esperanto: viandohakilo
Estonian: lihakirves , lihalõikamisnuga
Finnish: lihakirves (fi) ( meat cleaver )
French: fendoir (fr) m , couperet (fr) m
Georgian: საკვეთელა ( saḳvetela )
German: Hackbeil n , Cleaver (de) m
Greek: μπαλτάς (el) m ( baltás )
Ancient Greek: κοπίς f ( kopís )
Guaraní: kyse (gn)
Haitian Creole: koupre
Hebrew: קוֹפִיץ (he) m ( kufitz )
Hindi: विदारक (hi) m ( vidārak )
Hungarian: hentesbárd
Irish: scian bhúistéara f
Italian: mannarino m
Japanese: 包丁 (ja) ( ほうちょう, hōchō )
Kannada: ಸೀಳುಗ ( sīḷuga )
Kazakh: кливер ( kliver )
Khmer: ប៉័ងតោ (km) ( pangtao )
Korean: 클리버 ( keullibeo )
Lao: ປັງຕໍ ( pang tǭ )
Lithuanian: kapoklė f
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Lombard: folciott m
Luxembourgish: Beilen n
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Macedonian: сатар m ( satar )
Malagasy: famaky (mg) , antsibe (mg)
Malayalam: പിളർത്തിക്കൊണ്ട് ( piḷaṟttikkoṇṭŭ )
Mongolian: дэлгэх (mn) ( delgex )
Norman: ( Jersey ) hachot m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjøttøks m or f
Nynorsk: kjøttøks f
Pashto: سمت چاړه
Persian: ساتور (fa) ( sâtur )
Polish: tasak (pl) m
Portuguese: cutelo (pt) m
Romanian: satâr (ro) m
Russian: большо́й нож мясника́ m ( bolʹšój nož mjasniká ) , нож для нареза́ния мя́са m ( nož dlja narezánija mjása ) , сека́ч (ru) m ( sekáč )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: са̀тара f , ме̏сарска сјѐкира f
Roman: sàtara (sh) f , mȅsarska sjèkira f
Sicilian: mannara (scn) f
Sindhi: ڦٽائيندڙ
Sinhalese: සයිස් වල ( sayis wala )
Slovak: sekáčik m
Somali: jeexa
Spanish: cuchilla (es) f
Sundanese: kujang
Swahili: pambazua
Swedish: köttyxa c , hackkniv c
Tagalog: puthaw
Tajik: донаву (tg) ( donavu )
Tamil: வெட்டுக் ( veṭṭuk )
Telugu: క్లీవర్ ( klīvar )
Thai: ปังตอ (th) ( bpang dtor )
Tibetan: ཚའི་ཏོའོ ( tsha'i to'o ) , ཚལ་གྲི ( tshal gri )
Turkish: satır (tr)
Ukrainian: дровокол m ( drovokol )
Uzbek: yoruvchi
Vietnamese: thợ chẻ
Walloon: hatchåd (wa) m , findrece (wa) f
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