Crossword clues for cleaver
cleaver
- Long bladed hatchet
- TV family name
- Family name of 50's-60's TV
- Butcher's need
- Butcher's knife
- One on the chopping block
- A butcher's knife having a large square blade
- TV's Beaver ___
- Butcher's tool
- Chops primarily one's splitting, as tool
- One cuts start of Christmas holiday and runs
- Butcher's chopper
- Intelligent to hide a chopper
- Heavy knife
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.\n\nThis 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]
Wiktionary
n. A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc
WordNet
n. a butcher's knife having a large square blade [syn: meat cleaver, chopper]
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 edge running at right angles to the axis of the tool.
Acheulean cleavers resemble handaxes but with the pointed end truncated away. Flake cleavers have a cutting edge created by a tranchet flake being struck from the primary surface.
A cleaver (: クリーバー) is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed hatchet. It is largely used as a kitchen or butcher knife intended for hacking through bone. The knife's broad side can also be used for crushing in food preparation (such as garlic).
Cleaver is a metafictional film within a TV-series that serves as an important plot element toward the end of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos. Although very little film material is actually shown in the series, its planning and development are discussed at large throughout multiple seasons of the show. The extent to which Sopranos character Christopher Moltisanti mixes confidential and personal information about the Soprano mob family into the story elements of Cleaver is the focal point throughout its development. After the project eventually materializes, Cleaver can be categorized as a direct-to-DVD mafia- slasher film, described alternately as " Saw meets the Godfather II", " the Ring meets The Godfather", and "a story about a young man who goes to pieces and then manages to pull himself together again". Several characters are credited for their involvement in the project. The screenplay was written by J. T. Dolan based on a story by Christopher Moltisanti, directed by Morgan Yam and produced by Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr. and Moltisanti. The film starred Jonathan LaPaglia as Michael "the Cleaver" and Daniel Baldwin as mob boss Salvatore ("Sally Boy"). Also starring as Sally-boy's key advisors are George Pogatsia as Frankie and Lenny Ligotti as Nicky. Moltisanti and Lupertazzi initially attempted to recruit Ben Kingsley to fill the role of the mafia don in " Luxury Lounge (6x07)," but Kingsley turned down the part.
In geometry, a cleaver of a triangle is a line segment that bisects the perimeter of the triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the three sides.
- Each cleaver is parallel to one of the angle bisectors of the triangle.
- The three cleavers concur at the center of the Spieker circle.
A cleaver is a large knife.
Cleaver may also refer to:
Cleaver is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cleaver Bunton (1902–1999), Australian politician
- Billy Cleaver (1921–2003), Welsh rugby union player
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998), American writer and political activist
- Emanuel Cleaver (born 1944), U.S. Representative for Missouri and United Methodist pastor
- Euseby Cleaver (1746–1819), Anglican Archbishop of Dublin
- Gerald Cleaver (musician) (born 1963), African-American jazz drummer
- Gerald B. Cleaver, physics associate professor at Baylor University
- Gordon Cleaver (died 1994), British Second World War fighter ace and skier
- Harry Cleaver (born 1944), economics associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin
- Hughes Cleaver (1892–1980), Canadian politician
- Kathleen Neal Cleaver (born 1945), American professor of law
- Naomi Cleaver (born 1967), British design consultant and interior designer
- Richard Cleaver (1917-2006), Australian politician
- Solomon Cleaver (1855–1939), Canadian minister and storyteller
- Sue Cleaver (born 1965), English actress
- Val Cleaver (1917-1977), British rocket engineer
- William Cleaver (1742–1815), English bishop and academic
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.