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▪ I. cleaver1|ˈkliːvə(r)|
Also 5 clevere, 6 clyuer, 7 clever, cleever.
[f. cleave v.1 + -er.]
1. One who cleaves or splits (wood, etc.).
1483Cath. Angl. 67 Clevere, fissor. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clxvi. 1026 Euen from the Clyuer of thy wood, to the drawer of thy water. a1617Hieron Wks. (1619–20) II. 476 Get away..if thou be a cleauer, to thy wedge and an axe. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2332/2 Cleavers and Carriers of Wood. 1879Butcher & Lang Odyss. iv. 5 Achilles, cleaver of the ranks of men [ἀχιλλῆος ῥηξήνορος].
2. a. An instrument for cleaving; spec. a butcher's chopper for cutting up carcasses.[Rogers Agric. & Pr. refers to ‘cleavers’ under1449,1566; language of record not stated.] 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Couperet, a butcher's knife, a cleauer. 1633Massinger New Way v. i, Cook. If that I had my cleaver here, I would divide your knaves head. 1868Stanley Westm. Abb. ii. 99 The Royal Cook stood at the door of the Abbey with his cleaver.
b. marrow-bones and cleavers: freq. referred to as instruments of ‘rough music’.
c1712Arbuthnot (J.), With huzzas and hunting horns, and ringing the changes on butchers cleavers. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xxxvii. 145 As if a foreigner should take his ideas of English music from..the marrow-bones and cleavers. 1765B. Thornton (title), Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, adapted to the ancient British Musick; viz. the Salt-box, Jew's-Harp, the Marrow-bones and Cleavers, the Hum⁓strum or Hurdy-gurdy, etc. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. i. 260.
c. Archæol. A primitive core-tool with a sharp edge at one end.
1935Nature 21 Sept. 475/1 In Uganda this stage marks the beginning of a large-core technique for the manufacture of coups de poing and cleavers. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ii. 41 Cleaver, a similar all-purpose tool but with an axe-like cutting edge, usually at right-angles to the long axis.
▪ II. ˈcleaver2 rare.
[f. cleave v.2 + -er.]
One who, or that which, cleaves or adheres; (in quot.) an adherent attribute.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 48 Body, and the cleavers to it, are further off from the God-like nature, than the soul is.
▪ III. cleaver, -ly
obs. forms of clever, -ly. |