Cleaver: alternatives and connections

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…

To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

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Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

The business of a butcher.

A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the jo…

To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as,…

Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also,…

A butcher.

A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, a…

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.