cleaver
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"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
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
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
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
Survival was such a habit with him that he put away his cleaver, moved down the block, this time to a building under siege by its owner’s ex-wife.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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