cleaver

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• General-American: /ˈklivɚ/
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• rhymes with -iːvə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: K L IY1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Occupational surname for someone who split wood, from Middle English clevere (“one who cleaves”).

From Middle English clevere, equivalent to cleave + -er.

98 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hakmes — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Afrikaans: mes — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Albanian: hanxhar — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Albanian: satër — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Arabic: سَاطُور (sāṭūr) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Arabic: شقور (šəqur) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Aragonese: gotiel — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Armenian: հերձիչ (herjičʻ) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Armenian: ճեղքող (čeġkʻoġ) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Azerbaijani: çapacaq — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Azerbaijani: ət baltası — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Belarusian: дровокол (drovokol) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Bengali: কাটারী (kaṭari) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Bulgarian: сатъ́р (satǎ́r) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Burmese: ခုတ်ဓားမ (hkutdha:ma.) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Catalan: fulla de carnisser — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Cebuano: puthaw — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Chinese Cantonese: 菜刀 (coi3 dou1) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Chinese Mandarin: 菜刀 (càidāo) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Chinese Mandarin: 砍肉刀 (kǎnròudāo) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Czech: sekáček — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Danish: kødøkse — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Dutch: mes — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Dutch: hakmes — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Esperanto: viandohakilo — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Estonian: lihakirves — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Estonian: lihalõikamisnuga — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Finnish: lihakirves — a squarish knife used for hacking
• French: fendoir — a squarish knife used for hacking
• French: couperet — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Georgian: საკვეთელა (saḳvetela) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• German: Hackbeil — a squarish knife used for hacking
• German: Cleaver — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Greek: μπαλτάς (baltás) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Ancient Greek: κοπίς (kopís) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Haitian Creole: koupre — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Hebrew: קוֹפִיץ (kufitz) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Hindi: विदारक (vidārak) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Hungarian: hentesbárd — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Irish: scian bhúistéara — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Italian: mannarino — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Japanese: 包丁 (hōchō) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Kannada: ಸೀಳುಗ (sīḷuga) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Kazakh: кливер (kliver) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Khmer: ប៉័ងតោ (pangtao) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Korean: 클리버 (keullibeo) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Lao: ປັງຕໍ (pang tǭ) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Lithuanian: kapoklė — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Lombard: folciott — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Luxembourgish: Beilen — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Macanese: parám — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Macedonian: сатар (satar) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Malagasy: famaky — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Malagasy: antsibe — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Malayalam: പിളർത്തിക്കൊണ്ട് (piḷaṟttikkoṇṭŭ) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Mongolian: заазуур (zaazuur) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠵᠤᠤᠷ (ǰaɣaǰuur) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Norman: hachot — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjøttøks — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøttøks — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Pashto: سمت چاړه — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Persian: ساتور (sâtur) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Polish: tasak — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Portuguese: cutelo — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Romanian: satâr — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Russian: большо́й нож мясника́ (bolʹšój nož mjasniká) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Russian: нож для нареза́ния мя́са (nož dlja narezánija mjása) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Russian: сека́ч (sekáč) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Serbo-Croatian: са̀тара — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Serbo-Croatian: ме̏сарска сјѐкира — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Serbo-Croatian: sàtara — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Serbo-Croatian: mȅsarska sjèkira — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Sicilian: mannara — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Sindhi: ڦٽائيندڙ (phṭāẽdṛ) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Sinhalese: සයිස් වල (sayis wala) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Slovak: sekáčik — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Somali: jeexa — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Spanish: cuchilla — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Spanish: jifero — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Sundanese: kujang — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Swahili: pambazua — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Swedish: köttyxa — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Swedish: hackkniv — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Tagalog: puthaw — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Tajik: донаву (donavu) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Tamil: வெட்டுக் (veṭṭuk) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Telugu: క్లీవర్ (klīvar) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Thai: ปังตอ (bpang-dtɔɔ) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Thai: อีโต้ (ii-dtôo) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Tibetan: ཚའི་ཏོའོ (tsha'i to'o) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Tibetan: ཚལ་གྲི (tshal gri) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Turkish: satır — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Ottoman Turkish: ساطور (satır) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Ukrainian: дровокол (drovokol) — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Uzbek: yoruvchi — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Vietnamese: dao phay — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Walloon: hatchåd — a squarish knife used for hacking
• Walloon: findrece — a squarish knife used for hacking