cleaver

"One afternoon as I walked in and looked at this, it seemed to me that it had transformed into a meat cleaver. A jumbo meat cleaver".

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

I came to love the satisfying thunk of the cleaver hitting the cutting board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

Instead of crossed swords, a butcher’s knife, a cleaver and a honing steel cross behind a crest with paintings of a wheel of cheese, a lobster, a bottle of wine, a head of cattle.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

They play with the locks on your door while you are napping and cleaver banana plants in the middle of the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Jemmy looked up and barely made out a long, bony face with hollow cheeks and a nose like a meat cleaver.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

Then comes the sound, clams tossed in hot pans, cleavers pounding roast pork, a Cantonese rock ballad barely rising above the crowd.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

"Beryl was like a surprise attack, like an ambush," says Cornelius, in a deep baritone voice, over the market's chatter, reggae and thwack of cleavers on chopping boards.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024

The loud thwack! of cleavers cutting cleanly, hitting wooden boards soaked in meat juices punctuates the usually jovial atmosphere.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021

A tall, sleek, metal-and-glass table, like something from a science lab or hospital operating room, is festooned with eight meat cleavers suspended on elegant chains, four dangling from either side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2019

But he went to work with two cleavers chopping the onion up into the meat.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith