D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Cleaver

/klēv'-ẽr/ · Cleav·er · IPA /ˈklivɚ/
01 n. One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
  1. 1.
    One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.