Etymology
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From Middle English clevere , equivalent to cleave + -er .
Pronunciation
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A cleaver.
cleaver (plural cleavers )
A squarish , heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones , etc.
1883 , Howard Pyle , chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood [ … ] , New York, N.Y.: [ … ] Charles Scribner’s Sons [ … ] , →OCLC :When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
( music , Bahamas ) A type of clave , or rhythm stick , a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
( figurative ) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal , rejection , or removal .
Synonym: axe
2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian [1] :Conte has broken the mould further with the suggestion he might escape the Abramovich cleaver , becoming the first of his line to leave by his own volition.
( rowing ) A type of oar blade with an asymmetric , mostly rectangular shape that resembles a cleaving knife.
Usage notes
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As a musical instrument, cleaver is normally used only in the plural, just like the more common synonym claves , which is far more often used internationally and is better known as a part of Cuban music. In the Bahamas, cleavers is the more common terminology.
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Translations
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a squarish knife used for hacking
Afrikaans: hakmes
Albanian: hanxhar (sq) m , satër (sq) m
Arabic: سَاطُور m ( sāṭūr )
Moroccan Arabic: شقور m ( šəqur )
Aragonese: gotiel m
Armenian: հերձիչ ( herjičʻ ) , ճեղքող ( čeġkʻoġ )
Azerbaijani: çapacaq (az) , ət baltası
Belarusian: дровокол m ( drovokol )
Bengali: কাটারী ( kaṭari )
Bulgarian: сатъ́р (bg) m ( satǎ́r )
Burmese: ခုတ်ဓားမ ( hkutdha:ma. )
Catalan: fulla de carnisser f
Cebuano: puthaw
Chinese:
Cantonese: 菜刀 ( coi3 dou1 )
Mandarin: 菜刀 (zh) ( càidāo ) , 砍肉刀 ( kǎnròudāo )
Czech: sekáček (cs) m
Danish: kødøkse c
Dutch: mes (nl) n , hakmes (nl) n
Esperanto: viandohakilo
Estonian: lihakirves , lihalõikamisnuga
Finnish: lihakirves (fi) ( meat cleaver )
French: fendoir (fr) m , couperet (fr) m
Georgian: საკვეთელა ( saḳvetela )
German: Hackbeil n , Cleaver (de) m
Greek: μπαλτάς (el) m ( baltás )
Ancient: κοπίς f ( kopís )
Guaraní: kyse (gn)
Haitian Creole: koupre
Hebrew: קוֹפִיץ (he) m ( kufitz )
Hindi: विदारक (hi) m ( vidārak )
Hungarian: hentesbárd (hu)
Irish: scian bhúistéara f
Italian: mannarino m
Japanese: 包丁 (ja) ( ほうちょう, hōchō )
Kannada: ಸೀಳುಗ ( sīḷuga )
Kazakh: кливер ( kliver )
Khmer: ប៉័ងតោ (km) ( pangtao )
Korean: 클리버 ( keullibeo )
Lao: ປັງຕໍ ( pang tǭ )
Lithuanian: kapoklė f
Lombard: folciott m
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Luxembourgish: Beilen n
Macanese: parám
Macedonian: сатар m ( satar )
Malagasy: famaky (mg) , antsibe (mg)
Malayalam: പിളർത്തിക്കൊണ്ട് ( piḷaṟttikkoṇṭŭ )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: заазуур (mn) ( zaazuur )
Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠵᠤᠤᠷ ( ǰaɣaǰuur )
Norman: ( Jersey ) hachot m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjøttøks m or f
Nynorsk: kjøttøks f
Ottoman Turkish: ساطور ( satır )
Pashto: سمت چاړه
Persian: ساتور (fa) ( sâtur )
Polish: tasak (pl) m
Portuguese: cutelo (pt) m
Romanian: satâr (ro) m
Russian: большо́й нож мясника́ m ( bolʹšój nož mjasniká ) , нож для нареза́ния мя́са m ( nož dlja narezánija mjása ) , сека́ч (ru) m ( sekáč )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: са̀тара f , ме̏сарска сјѐкира f
Roman: sàtara (sh) f , mȅsarska sjèkira f
Sicilian: mannara (scn) f
Sindhi: ڦٽائيندڙ
Sinhalese: සයිස් වල ( sayis wala )
Slovak: sekáčik m
Somali: jeexa
Spanish: cuchilla (es) f
Sundanese: kujang
Swahili: pambazua
Swedish: köttyxa (sv) c , hackkniv c
Tagalog: puthaw
Tajik: донаву (tg) ( donavu )
Tamil: வெட்டுக் ( veṭṭuk )
Telugu: క్లీవర్ ( klīvar )
Thai: ปังตอ (th) ( bpang dtor )
Tibetan: ཚའི་ཏོའོ ( tsha'i to'o ) , ཚལ་གྲི ( tshal gri )
Turkish: satır (tr)
Ukrainian: дровокол m ( drovokol )
Uzbek: yoruvchi
Vietnamese: thợ chẻ
Walloon: hatchåd (wa) m , findrece (wa) f
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