cleaver
Significado (Inglés)
- A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
- (Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
- (figuratively) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
- A type of oar blade with an asymmetric, mostly rectangular shape that resembles a cleaving knife.
- A line segment that bisects the perimeter of a triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the triangle's three sides.
Conceptos
Sinónimos
meat cleaver
butcher’s knife
sliter
large chopping-knife
butcher’s chopper
jungle-knife
bricklayer’s cleaver
Traducciones
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈklivɚ/
Etimología (Inglés)
In summary
From Middle English clevere, equivalent to cleave + -er.
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