meat cleaver

  • 1meat cleaver — noun a butcher s knife having a large square blade • Syn: ↑cleaver, ↑chopper • Derivationally related forms: ↑chop (for: ↑chopper), ↑cleave (for: ↑ …

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  • 2The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat — Infobox Album Name = The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat Type = demo Artist = Marilyn Manson The Spooky Kids Released = 1990 Recorded = Genre = Length = Label = Producer = Reviews = Last album = The Raw Boned Psalms (1989) This album = The Beaver Meat… …

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  • 3Cleaver (knife) — Main article: Kitchen knives Chinese chef s knife (top) and old North American cleaver (bottom) …

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  • 4cleaver — n. a butcher s; meat cleaver * * * [ kliːvə] meat cleaver a butcher s …

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  • 5cleaver — [[t]kli͟ːvə(r)[/t]] cleavers N COUNT A cleaver is a knife with a large square blade, used for chopping meat or vegetables. ...a meat cleaver …

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  • 6Meat carving — is the process and skill of cutting portions of meat, such as roast and poultry, to obtain a maximum or satisfactory number of meat portions, using a carving knife or meat slicing machine. A meat carver disjoints the meat and slices in uniform… …

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  • 7meat axe — meat ax or meat axe, 1. a butcher s cleaver used to chop roughly through meat and bone. 2. Figurative. a ruthless and sometimes indiscriminate hacking away: »The House assaulted the Administration s defense request with meat axes, lopped off some …

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  • 8meat-axe — meatˈ axe or (N American) meatˈ ax noun A cleaver • • • Main Entry: ↑meat …

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  • 9cleaver — ► NOUN ▪ a tool with a heavy broad blade, used for chopping meat …

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  • 10cleaver — /klee veuhr/, n. 1. a heavy, broad bladed knife or long bladed hatchet, esp. one used by butchers for cutting meat into joints or pieces. 2. a person or thing that cleaves. [1325 75; ME clevere. See CLEAVE2, ER1] * * * ▪ tool       heavy, axlike… …

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