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Tool that's swung
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cleaver
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In archaeology , a cleaver is a type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic . Cleavers are a little like hand axes . They are large and oblong or U-shaped tools meant to be held in the hand, but unlike hand axes, they have a wide, straight cutting ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleaver \Cleav"er\, n. One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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. ▪ I was taken by the drama of it - one mistake, and somebody's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc
Usage examples of cleaver.
Marler pressed his monocular glass to his eye and focused it on Cleaver Hall.
He switched his glass to where a silver Citroen was parked alongside the granite wall surrounding Cleaver Hall.
Beech, the agent, says a man called Gulliver, acting for someone else, buys Cleaver Hall.
Hunched behind the wheel he watched the entrance to Cleaver Hall, a pair of immensely tall wrought-iron gates which were closed.
Turn left, drive round the creek, make a U-turn beyond Cleaver Hall, then drive back close to the gates but park by the wall.
He raised the camera, focused it along the pebble drive, began to photo Cleaver Hall between two bars.
Butler was elsewhere, exploring the locality round Cleaver Hall, checking its defences.
A stunning blonde arrived at Cleaver Hall to interview the owner for some magazine.
First he was working on installing security at Cleaver Hall when Lisa Trent arrives.
He has just arrived from England with an interesting film taken at Cleaver Hall.
As Gulliver started the film running, the film taken by a man in a first-floor window at Cleaver Hall, Rosa leaned forward.
Gulliver, anxious to improve his standing, had moved with great speed to produce the still photos from the film taken of events outside Cleaver Hall.
Hence that heavily guarded headquarters at Cleaver Hall his base for Tidal Wave to submerge the island.
I predict again that the final confrontation will take place amid that strange labyrinth of creeks south of Chichester, and at Cleaver Hall.
Gulliver, the first task as soon as we enter Cleaver Hall is to mount the most massive defences lay land-mines, everything.