cleaver

2 definitions found

cleaver - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cleaver \Cleav"er\, n.
     One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a
     butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or
     pieces.
     [1913 Webster]

cleaver - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cleaver
      n 1: a butcher's knife having a large square blade [syn:
           cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper]