From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcleavercleav‧er /ˈkliːvə $ -ər/ noun [countable] DFUa heavy knife for cutting up large pieces of meat
Examples from the Corpus
cleaver• Just himself and Eloise, a cleaver, a gun, a spoonful of rat poison.• At home, he took a cleaver, turned it over and over in his hand.• Chop the meat to a consistency that you like with a cleaver, then liberally splash it with sauce.• She was sitting on a tall wooden stool with a cleaver in her hand, chopping leeks.• To them, the justice system is a mockery, another cleaver in the hands of Power.• I was taken by the drama of it - one mistake, and somebody's at you with a meat cleaver.• Using a small cleaver or a large, heavy knife, cut the hind leg across the bone into 2 pieces.• Perturbed, he swung the cleaver viciously, chopping fowl after fowl into pieces. 