cleaver

"You can see it as a domestic narrative and then you can see it as a jumbo meat cleaver".

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

So it is that I gained life lessons from a kitchen knife: a 1-pound, 8.6-inch carbon-steel Chinese cleaver I picked up on a whim in Lower Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

A Santoku knife is a Japanese chef’s knife with small indentations along the straight blade, in the style of a Chinese slicing cleaver.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

The dirt along the riverbed today looks as though somebody took a cleaver to a chocolate cake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

Around the perimeter were rows of shops easily identified by the crests over their doors: a cleaver and a pig for the butcher, an anvil for the blacksmith, crossed wooden peels for the baker.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

During the last amnesty in 2006, people handed over more than 12,500 blades to police without facing criminal charges - they included machetes, swords, meat cleavers, bayonets and axes.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Like sitcom employees, the Clyde’s cooks complain about how busy they are, and they look busy, smacking cleavers through heads of lettuce, slapping turkey slices onto waxed paper, and lavishly squeezing sauces all over them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

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

Francie watched, loving the drumbeat rhythm of the cleavers.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith