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

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

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

Sarah put down her cleaver and sat on the bench next to the table.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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

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

In the office, two cleavers are stuck forebodingly into the wall, an installation by Barry Le Va, the influential sculptor who died this year.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021

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

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith