Definitions for cleavers

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cleavers cleav·ers

Spelling: [klee-verz]

IPA: /ˈkli vərz/

Cleavers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in cleavers (aceelrsv).

Definitions for cleavers

noun

1. a North American plant, Galium aparine, of the madder family, having short, hooked bristles on the stems and leaves and bearing very small white flowers.
2. any of certain related species.
3. a heavy, broad-bladed knife or long-bladed hatchet, especially one used by butchers for cutting meat into joints or pieces.
4. a person or thing that cleaves.

Origin of cleavers

before 1000; Middle English clivre, Old English clife burdock (-re probably by association with Middle English clivres (plural) claws, or with the agent noun from cleven to Examples for cleavers

"Galium tricorne," very much like common goose-grass or cleavers, but rare in England, and quite unknown in this neighbourhood.

It was formerly the custom for butchers' assistants to provide themselves with marrow-bones and cleavers for musical effects.

Some people swear by cleavers; others (like me) are terrified by them.

Before him was a glass counter wherein were displayed knives and cleavers and scissors and other cutlery.

The antique fireplace and the ancient mantelpiece were forced to keep company with meat blocks and butchers' cleavers.

A tremendous noise of cleavers and pans came from the kitchen.

And now the bark is sailing up the Thames, with bells ringing, bonfires blazing, and "bones and cleavers" clashing.

Then there arrived the butchers, with their marrowbones and cleavers, and began to make their music with zeal.

The town might follow us to church with a serenade of marrowbones and cleavers, as they do the butchers.

The men who play the bells have got scent of the marriage; and the marrow-bones and cleavers too; and a brass band too.