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cleavers

WordNet
A cleaver.
A cleaver.
  1. (n) cleavers
    annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
Illustrations
Arquebus or splitter with matchlock and octagonal barrel. Coat of arms of the cleavers.
Arquebus or splitter with matchlock and octagonal barrel. Coat of arms of the cleavers.
The Bavarian dwarf Gertraud Knörtzlin, holding a cleaver and a basket of eggs in one hand, makes an obscene gesture with the other. In the caption under the title a six-line verse in German. Numbered top right: 42. Part of a loose-leaf edition from about 1710 of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as The Dwarf Scene.
The Bavarian dwarf Gertraud Knörtzlin, holding a cleaver and a basket of eggs in one hand, makes an obscene gesture with the other. In the caption under the title a six-line verse in German. Numbered top right: 42. Part of a loose-leaf edition from about 1710 of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as The Dwarf Scene.
Cleavers. Numbered top right: 245. Bottom right the name in eight languages. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Cleavers. Numbered top right: 245. Bottom right the name in eight languages. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Montage or uniform of the cleavers (or flasks) of Dordrecht, ca. 1785. Part of a sketchbook with 41 colored drawings of the mounts of the armed militia and civilian corps in the Netherlands in the period ca. 1783-1789.
Montage or uniform of the cleavers (or flasks) of Dordrecht, ca. 1785. Part of a sketchbook with 41 colored drawings of the mounts of the armed militia and civilian corps in the Netherlands in the period ca. 1783-1789.
A cleaver and a plum blossom branch. With one poem.
A cleaver and a plum blossom branch. With one poem.
Wolf-headed Lycaon is standing on the left with a cleaver over his shoulder. He is about to kill Jupiter, who is sleeping naked in the bed on the right. Left a view of a landscape with a lion and two wolves.
Wolf-headed Lycaon is standing on the left with a cleaver over his shoulder. He is about to kill Jupiter, who is sleeping naked in the bed on the right. Left a view of a landscape with a lion and two wolves.
The Bavarian dwarf Amazonian Bush robbers, holding a cleaver and a basket of eggs in one hand, making an obscene gesture with the other. In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Numbered center right: 42. Part of part II in the second Dutch bound edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as Het Dwergentooneel.
The Bavarian dwarf Amazonian Bush robbers, holding a cleaver and a basket of eggs in one hand, making an obscene gesture with the other. In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Numbered center right: 42. Part of part II in the second Dutch bound edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as Het Dwergentooneel.
Target gun or target rudder. The brass clasp shows traces of earlier gilding; the lock plate is trimmed with copper; the pan rests on a base in the shape of a seashell. The barrel is ribbed and grooved on the back; the square trumpet has the shape of a Corinthian column; the visor and grain are made of brass. The butt is inlaid with mother-of-pearl and carved in relief with foliage, snakes and dolphins; the support block for the trigger guard ends in a bird's claw around a ball that is flattened at the bottom. Apart from the cow horn drawer cap, the fittings are formerly gilded brass and consists of a screw plate inscribed with a name, and a butt plate with a spur all over the handle; the ramrod has an iron hood.
Target rifle of the cleavers' guild in Amsterdam
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The Roman emperor Commodos collected all the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks he could find in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Coliseum, where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers.
  1. (n) cleavers
    A plant, Galium Aparine, also called goose-grass, used to some extent in medicine as a diuretic and sudorific. It has a square jointed stem, with short reflexed prickles on the angles, and eight narrow leaves at each joint. Also rarely in singular, cleaver, cliver.
  2. (n) cleavers
    Tufts of grass.
  3. (n) cleavers
    [In form clivers.] The refuse of wheat.
  4. (n) cleavers
    Any plant of the genus Galium, such as bedstraw, goose-grass, etc., the numerous species being distinguished by appropriate qualifying names. Of native American species, G. circæzans is called cross-cleavers from the cross-like arrangement of the four leaves of the whorls. The dyer's-cleavers is G. tinctorium, also called wild madder.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Cleavers
    goose-grass—Galium aperine, diuretic and sudorific
Quotations
Lord Byron
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From Cleave to stick

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. cleófan; cog. with Ger. klieben.

Usage in the news

It was Cleaver 's first. kcur.org

Cleaver chairs the Congressional Black Caucus. kcur.org

I disagree with Emanuel Cleaver 's approach of nickel-and-diming seniors to death by raising co-pays and denying COLA increases. examiner.net

In conjunction with the Make a Wish Foundation, Mesa, Arizona's Abbi Cleaver , a high school cheer captain, who is in remission from her year long battle with bone cancer, had her wish of "flying high" with the U.H. khon.com

Sale Of Cleaver 's Car Wash Not Yet Finalized. ktts.com

Letter to Representative Cleaver Supporting his EASY Voting Act. nea.org

AP Photo Barbara Billingsley poses in 1986 next to a portrait of her television family, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers and herself as the Cleaver family from "Leave It To Beaver". oregonlive.com

Mother's Day: From June Cleaver to Gloria Pritchett, 5 great TV moms. csmonitor.com

Dick Durbin, John Kasich, William Lori, Anne Graham Lotz, Emmanuel Cleaver , Raul Labrador, Jon Meacham. msnbc.msn.com

Levee group to meet with Congressman Cleaver . kbia.org

The " Outsight Radio " podcast has a new episode titled "Feb 14 Chuck Cleaver Interview". xou.org

This episode features a lot of the Chuck Cleaver projects Wussy and Ass Ponys – Cleaver is our featured artist and interview guest. xou.org

South Dakota Man Sentenced For Meat Cleaver Attack. keloland.com

Google Maps Two police officers shot and killed a man who was wielding a meat cleaver on Otis Avenue in Tuckerton. nj.com

Armstrong International, Cleaver -Brooks Join Forces for Steam Training. hpac.com

Usage in scientific papers

The tool used to cut the fiber precisely was made out of a fiber cleaver (Fujitsu) and a micro-translation stage.
Long-distance Bell-type tests using energy-time entangled photons

Usage in literature

The first article turned out in the way of tools was a bolo, a heavy cleaver-like blade, used by many primitive tribes. "The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns" by Roger Thompson Finlay

Heavens, Steve, that cleaver of yours is a frightful thing in action! "Spacehounds of IPC" by Edward Elmer Smith

I think it very lucky for Cleaver, that this man died before Lord North. "Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third" by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Corporal, lend me the cleaver. "Snarley-yow" by Frederick Marryat

Camp Muir, on Cowlitz Cleaver. "The Mountain that was 'God'" by John H. Williams

In something less than the two hours I had allowed for the passage, the procession of boats reached Cleaver Island. "Breaking Away" by Oliver Optic

His two best jugs were placed on the ledge; his cleaver was hung at his belt. "As It Was in the Beginning" by Philip Verrill Mighels

As the butcher's cleaver passes through the bone, so did the bow of the Yankee destroyer go through the Hun. "Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers" by H. Irving Hancock

One day, in the kitchen she came upon a newly sharpened cleaver, its edge invisibly thin and its broad, flat side gleaming in the sun. "The Best Short Stories of 1919" by Various

The cleaver and axe are our arms; our life is in the slaughter house: Hurrah for the slaughter house! "The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864" by Various

Usage in poetry
Tom led the van, with cleaver bright,
And gilded stick, "God and my right,"
Like summer posy painted gay,
To show his high authority.
"The Watch And Ward." by Samuel Bamford Author object (591)