meat cleaver

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   a butcher's knife having a large square blade

   Synonymscleaverchopper

   Broaderknife

Questions about meat cleaver

What does meat cleaver mean?

meat cleaver means "a butcher's knife having a large square blade".

What is another word for meat cleaver?

Close synonyms include cleaver, chopper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meat cleaver a common word?

meat cleaver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.