Synonyms for cleaver
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : klee-ver |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkli vər |
Définition of cleaver
Origin :- late 15c., "one who splits," agent noun from cleave (v.1). Originally "one who splits boards with a wedge instead of sawing;" attested as part of a surname from mid-14c. Meaning "butcher's chopper" is from mid-15c.
- This last ["Marrowbones and Cleaver"] is a sign in Fetter Lane, originating from a custom, now rapidly dying away, of the butcher boys serenading newly married couples with these professional instruments. Formerly, the band would consist of four cleavers, each of a different tone, or, if complete, of eight, and by beating their marrowbones skilfully against these, they obtained a sort of music somewhat after the fashion of indifferent bell-ringing. When well performed, however, and heard from a proper distance, it was not altogether unpleasant. ... The butchers of Clare market had the reputation of being the best performers. ... This music was once so common that Tom Killigrew called it the national instrument of England. [Larwood & Hotten, "The History of Signboards from the Earliest Times to the Present Day," London, 1867]
- noun cutting instrument
- The blows which she dealt with her cleaver reminded her of Marjolin.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- Will you land on Cleaver Island, or will you get into that boat?
- Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic
- Heavens, Steve, that cleaver of yours is a frightful thing in action!
- Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
- Oh, because Isabel made him believe that it would not be fair to Miss Cleaver.
- Extract from : « Isabel Leicester » by Clotilda Jennings
- One night he went for his wife with the cleaver and she had to sleep in a neighbour's house.
- Extract from : « Dubliners » by James Joyce
- Black Moran looks like he'd be'n gashed with a butcher's cleaver!
- Extract from : « Connie Morgan in the Fur Country » by James B. Hendryx
- In front of the tribunal a soldier is about to cut a child in two with a cleaver.
- Extract from : « Pompeii, Its Life and Art » by August Mau
- Perhaps it extended upward in the form of a long, attenuated "cleaver."
- Extract from : « Mount Rainier » by Various
- As for Cleaver, he was given his credits and permitted to graduate in due time.
- Extract from : « Ann Arbor Tales » by Karl Edwin Harriman
- Afterwards, with a cleaver, they severed the head and placed it with the body in the coffin.
- Extract from : « Haunted London » by Walter Thornbury
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