A tool or implement for breaking or chopping up. Agriculture. A tool resembling a mattock, hoe, or pickaxe, mainly used to break up clods of…

An implement used for hacking, chopping, or cutting; a chopper; spec. an axe or other tool for cutting wood or branches, a cleaver. Formerly also: †a…

(a) a cleaver for cutting up, a chopper; (b) a knife with a handle at each end, for mincing meat, suet, etc.

A chopper for cleaving wood.

An instrument for cleaving; spec. a butcher's chopper for cutting up carcasses.

A chopping-tool used for trimming slates.

An instrument used for cleaving or cutting up: spec. a large-bladed short-handled axe used for cutting up meat, wood, etc.; a butcher's cleaver.