tool
Cleaver
Kitchen utensils with a heavy, usually rectangular blade used to chop meat
into pieces. Blade and handle form one whole, or the blade is inserted into
a wooden handle and takes up more than half of the total weight. In this
way, the cleaver falls forward and down, as it were, making chopping
easier. The weight (300 gr - 3 kg) of these meat cleavers varies depending
on the work to be done with them. Heavy cleavers of butchers effortlessly
cut through most joints and bones. See also the billhook for wood and the
two-handed cleaver. [MOT]