Usually means: Heavy knife for chopping meat.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word cleaver:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cleaver: Merriam-Webster
  2. cleaver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cleaver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cleaver: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cleaver, cleaver: Wordnik
  6. cleaver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cleaver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cleaver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cleaver: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cleaver: Dictionary.com
  11. cleaver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Cleaver (The Sopranos), Cleaver (disambiguation), Cleaver (geometry), Cleaver (knife), Cleaver (surname), Cleaver (tool), Cleaver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cleaver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cleaver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cleaver: Rhymezone
  16. Cleaver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cleaver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. cleaver: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cleaver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cleaver: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cleaver: Vocabulary.com
  22. cleaver: Wiktionary
  23. cleaver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cleaver (geology), cleaver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Cleaver: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cleaver, cleaver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cleaver: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
noun:  (music, Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
noun:  (figurative) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
noun:  (rowing) A type of oar blade with an asymmetric, mostly rectangular shape that resembles a cleaving knife.
noun:  (geometry) A line segment that bisects the perimeter of a triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the triangle's three sides.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.

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