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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Wide-bladed kitchen tool shaped like a hatchet, used for chopping throught bores or for pounding meat thin(BTM). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because they are only fit to sever the bull necks of their countrymen with a butcher's cleaver. But a woman's neck, a Queen's neck: that calls for finesse, for delicacy, for chivalry in one word, a Frenchman! (The Private Life of Henry VIII; writing credit: Lajos Biró; Arthur Wimperis) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "BUTCHER'S CLEAVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | huggekniv (butcher's chopper, cleaver). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | Kapmes (butcher's chopper, cleaver), hakmes (butcher's chopper, cleaver). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | couperet (butcher's chopper). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Hackmesser (chopper, choppers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | μεγάλο μαχαίÏι (butcher's chopper, cleaver). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | mannaia (ax, axe, chopper, cleaver, knife). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | utcher'sbay eaverclay cutelo (chopper, cradle, cutlass, gore, logger, log-man). (various references) | ||||||||||
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