cleaver
cleaver Lexical Profile
cleaver Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A heavy, broad-bladed knife or hatchet used especially by butchers for chopping through meat and bone.
"The culinary instructor demonstrated how to use a heavy cleaver to cleanly chop through the dense poultry bones."
A sprawling weed (Galium aparine) of the madder family, characterized by small hooked bristles on its stems and leaves that catch onto clothing and animal fur.
"After hiking through the overgrown field, she spent an hour pulling the sticky burs of the cleaver plant off her woolen socks."
A person or thing that cleaves, splits, or severs something.
"The experienced diamond cleaver carefully studied the gemstone's internal structure before making the critical strike."
• Rhymes for cleaver
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Middle English 'clevere', from the verb 'cleven' (to split), combining the root 'cleave' with the agent suffix '-er'.
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