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The word cleaver has a number of uses:
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Implement or device
- Cleaver (knife) is a type of large knife
- Cleaver (tool) is a type of prehistoric stone tool
- Cleaver (propeller) is a propeller design, esp. for high performance boat racing
In nature
- Cleaver, a type of arête, a ridge of rock that separates a unified flow of glacial ice from its uphill side into two glaciers flanking, and flowing parallel to, the ridge.
- Cleaver (plant) is a burr-bearing plant (Galium aparine)
People
- Cleaver Bunton, Australian politician
- Billy Cleaver, Wales international rugby union player
- Eldridge Cleaver, American civil rights leader
- Emanuel Cleaver, Reverend, former mayor of Kansas City, MO, and current member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Gerald Cleaver (musician), jazz drummer
- Gerald B. Cleaver, physicist
- Harry Cleaver, Marxist theorist
- Kathleen Neal Cleaver, wife of Eldridge Cleaver
- Naomi Cleaver, British interior designer and TV presenter
- Robert Cleaver, American WWII airman
- Solomon Cleaver, Canadian writer
- Sue Cleaver, British actress
Fictional characters
From the US television series Leave It to Beaver:
- June Cleaver
- Theodore Cleaver ("the Beaver")
- Wally Cleaver
- Ward Cleaver
Other
- Cleaver (geometry), a special segment in a triangle
- Cleaver (The Sopranos), a fictional film made and produced by fictional characters on the series The Sopranos
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Cleaver — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Alice Cleaver (1889–1984), englisches Kindermädchen Blade Cleaver (* 1992), kanadischer Geschwindigkeitsskifahrer Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998), US amerikanischer Schriftsteller Emanuel Cleaver (* 1944), US … Deutsch Wikipedia
Cleaver — Cleav er, n. One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher s instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cleaver — late 15c., one who splits, agent noun from CLEAVE (Cf. cleave) (1). Originally one who splits boards with a wedge instead of sawing; attested as a surname from early 14c. Meaning butcher s chopper is from 1570s … Etymology dictionary
cleaver — ► NOUN ▪ a tool with a heavy broad blade, used for chopping meat … English terms dictionary
cleaver — [klēv′ər] n. [ CLEAVE1 + ER] a heavy cutting tool with a broad blade, used by butchers … English World dictionary
cleaver — /klee veuhr/, n. 1. a heavy, broad bladed knife or long bladed hatchet, esp. one used by butchers for cutting meat into joints or pieces. 2. a person or thing that cleaves. [1325 75; ME clevere. See CLEAVE2, ER1] * * * ▪ tool heavy, axlike… … Universalium
cleaver n — There was this one man show baker who prided himself on his bread. He would slice it to order, disdaining automatic slicers, saying that his way was much more effective for the end result. (He was dealing with the upper crust, of course.) Soon… … English expressions
Cleaver — I Cleaver [ kliːvə, englisch] der, s/ , Spaltkeil, Steinwerkzeug der frühen Altsteinzeit mit breiter Schneide und keilförmigem Längsschnitt; tritt meist zusammen mit Faustkeilen auf. II Cleaver [ kliːvə], Leroy Eldridge … Universal-Lexikon
Cleaver — This interesting name, with the variants Cleever and Clover, has two possible origins. The first being an official title for a mace bearer. The clavia, mace, or staff was an ensign of authority borne before magistrates. All the early recordings… … Surnames reference
cleaver — n. a butcher s; meat cleaver * * * [ kliːvə] meat cleaver a butcher s … Combinatory dictionary
