| 单词 | cleaver |
| 释义 | cleaver (once / 8756 pages) n A cleaver is a large knife, used mainly by butchers. The blade of a cleaver is big and square. To cut a steak, you need a good, sharp knife. To cut larger parts of meat, you need something even more powerful: a cleaver (or chopper). Cleavers have fat, square blades and are used for cutting large hunks of meat. It can help you remember the meaning of this word if you know that to cleave is to separate. If you're not a butcher, you probably have no use for a cleaver (unless you're a villain in a horror movie). WORD FAMILYcleaver: cleavers+/cleavage: cleavages/cleave: cleavable, cleavage, cleaved, cleaver, cleaves, cleaving USAGE EXAMPLESEarlier, in January, a man wearing fake explosives attacked officers with a meat cleaver in a Paris police station while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Time(Dec 20, 2016) The June—a robotic Mrs. Cleaver—is humankind’s oldest appliance reinvented for the machine-learning age. Wall Street Journal(Dec 14, 2016) The baby’s screeching rose and fell like a cleaver on meat. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) n a butcher's knife having a large square blade Syn|Hyper chopper, meat cleaver knife edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle |
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