A tool with a heavy, broad blade, used for chopping meat.
police are searching for carjackers who threatened a motorist with a meat cleaver
Example sentencesExamples
- With the back of a meat cleaver crack open the bone encasing the marrow (the butcher can do this for you).
- We know that he was armed with a meat cleaver.
- The brawl involved more than 50 men armed with meat cleavers.
- Other weapons, including knives and meat cleavers, were discovered at the scene.
- Use a meat cleaver to cut the pumpkin into half.
- Robbers used guns and a meat cleaver to hold up two businesses.
- A pensioner was being treated in hospital today after being attacked with a meat cleaver as he walked his dog last night.
- She pulled out the meat cleaver and carefully ran her finger across the lethal blade.
- She had been stabbed multiple times with knives and a meat cleaver.
- The man held the meat cleaver to the terrified shopkeeper's throat and demanded money.
- A bloodstained meat cleaver was found discarded in the street.
- A man wielding a meat cleaver stole money that staff were attempting to deposit at the bank.
- He ran back to the restaurant and fetched a meat cleaver.