A tool with a heavy, broad blade, used for chopping meat.
 police are searching for carjackers who threatened a motorist with a meat cleaver
 Example sentencesExamples
-  With the back of a meat cleaver crack open the bone encasing the marrow (the butcher can do this for you).
 -  We know that he was armed with a meat cleaver.
 -  The brawl involved more than 50 men armed with meat cleavers.
 -  Other weapons, including knives and meat cleavers, were discovered at the scene.
 -  Use a meat cleaver to cut the pumpkin into half.
 -  Robbers used guns and a meat cleaver to hold up two businesses.
 -  A pensioner was being treated in hospital today after being attacked with a meat cleaver as he walked his dog last night.
 -  She pulled out the meat cleaver and carefully ran her finger across the lethal blade.
 -  She had been stabbed multiple times with knives and a meat cleaver.
 -  The man held the meat cleaver to the terrified shopkeeper's throat and demanded money.
 -  A bloodstained meat cleaver was found discarded in the street.
 -  A man wielding a meat cleaver stole money that staff were attempting to deposit at the bank.
 -  He ran back to the restaurant and fetched a meat cleaver.