单词 | cleaver |
释义 | cleavern.1 1. One who cleaves or splits (wood, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > one who or that which cleaves or splits cleaver1483 splitter1648 1483 Cath. Angl. 67 Clevere, fissor. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxvi. 1026 Euen from the Clyuer of thy wood, to the drawer of thy water. a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 476 Get away..if thou be a cleauer, to thy wedge and an axe. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2332/2 Cleavers and Carriers of Wood. 1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 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.J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices refers to ‘cleavers’ in 1449, 1550, 1554, 1566; language of record not stated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > cleaver chopping-knife1552 cleaver1580 chopper1818 meat-axe1834 mezzaluna1954 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > chopper or cleaver hack1333 hackera1398 chopping-knife1552 clavestock1580 cleaver1580 sax1669 chopper1818 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Couperet, a butcher's knife, a cleauer. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts v. i. sig. M1v Furn. If that I had my cleuer here I would diuide your Knaues head. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey ii. 99 The Royal Cook stood at the door of the Abbey with his cleaver. b. marrow-bones and cleavers: see marrowbone n. 1c. c. Archaeology. A primitive core-tool with a sharp edge at one end. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1935 Nature 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. 1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ii. 41 Cleaver, a similar all-purpose tool but with an axe-like cutting edge, usually at right-angles to the long axis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cleavern.2 rare. One who, or that which, cleaves or adheres; (in quot. 1674) an adherent attribute. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute i-cundeOE kindOE thingOE quality1340 virtue1340 assizea1375 propertyc1390 principlea1398 conditionc1460 faculty1490 predicatea1513 epitheton1547 passion1570 propriety1584 affection1588 attribute1603 qualification1616 appropriate1618 intimacy1641 bedighting1674 belonger1674 cleaver1674 interiority1701 internal property1751 predicable1785 coloration1799 internality1839 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 48 Body, and the cleavers to it, are further off from the God-like nature, than the soul is. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11483n.21674 |
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