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Cleaver

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, cleaver means: A heavy knife with a broad, usually rectangular blade used for chopping.

In Turkish: satır

How it is used

The task depends on the type; meat and vegetable cleavers are not identical.

Example sentences

  1. The butcher selected a heavy cleaver for the large joint.

    The broad, heavy blade suits this chopping task.

  2. A lighter vegetable cleaver lay beside the cutting board.

    The qualifier distinguishes a different type of cleaver.

Common collocations

  • meat cleaver
  • vegetable cleaver
  • chopTo cut food into pieces with a knife, usually quickly and without needing every piece to be exactly the same size.
  • cutting boardA flat board made of plastic or wood on which food is cut. Professional kitchens often use boards of different colours for different types of food.

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