They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause] Reference

Everyone has cartoon meat cleavers up in they grill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wait] Reference

It can be carried out using axes, cleavers or machettes.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1. Forests] Reference

They held them in a row, and chopped them down with cleavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

As if sprung from the ground, a horde with swords and cleavers appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

About half the citizens were now armed, if only with knives or cleavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

So it's always a series of juggling, not balls, but meat cleavers sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2003] Reference

Do fear the great wok, chili garlic sauce and the cleavers of Chinatown chefs 43.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA] Reference

By the time I arrived, I had enough anger to fend off a thousand flying cleavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

The Gray Sturmoviks lounged on the quays, playing with their rusty butcher cleavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

A deputation from the marrow-bones and cleavers waited on Lord Stanley at the Treasury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841] Reference

The South African team armed themselves with meat cleavers and knives from the kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivors' Tales From Inside the Siege in India] Reference

Instead of hand axes and cleavers, the bands relied on wooden tools and bamboo artifacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Out of Africa] Reference

They grounded their spears like guardsmen, put by their cleavers, and then stood forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash For Freedom]

Rocket Scientist John, possessor of an unfair advantage, he's smart, matched the cleavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Samoa: Here's To the Pirates Who Lunch] Reference

They were armed with heavy cleavers mounted on poles, which they brandished at the travelers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

'I want water, clean linen, the ointment of centaury and cleavers, and a good measure of wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

In tea or pill form, these herbal preparations include burdock, buchu, cleavers, and horsetail.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Health Guide on the Safe and Proper Use of Diuretics] Reference

They would have killed him then with spears and cleavers, working off their fear, as small men do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

    They were armed with heavy cleavers mounted on poles, which they brandished at the travelers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

Whirling, I grabbed the nearest weapon I could find, which happened to be one of the kitchen cleavers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changeling]

Having armed themselves with spits, knives, and cleavers, from a cook's shop, they hastened out of Capua.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

From the seed syllables HI and so on, then cleavers, come the eight divine maidens, a Bhima, a Terrifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abbreviated Kalachakra Body, Speech, and Mind Sadhana] Reference

A heap of long-bladed bread knives, French knives, carving knives and cleavers lay in the center of the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gambler's World] Reference

University of Witwatersrand archaeologist filled up three boxes with axes, knives, cleavers, and related tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Below them, among the goblin rank and file, nerveless claws opened, letting cleavers and axes fall to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

Bone cleavers, raised to intercept the blow, were amputated as the forest giant literally disarmed the summoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey]

Anna heard the words again now and resolutely cleared her mind of boys and cleavers and high-tech drinking apparatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lure]

The bands used simple tool kits that revolved around multipurpose stone axes and cleavers with sharp edges and points.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Out of Africa] Reference

Gangsters slashed Cheng with meat cleavers last year in retaliation for on-air comments about their business interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Shadows] Reference

The men who play the bells have got scent of the marriage; and the marrow-bones and cleavers too; and a brass band too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference

The men who play the bells have got scent of the marriage; and the marrow – bones and cleavers too; and a brass band too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

It was formerly the custom for butchers 'assistants to provide themselves with marrow-bones and cleavers for musical effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference

Early humans lived along the banks of the Vaal River and made stone tools, called handaxes and cleavers, from the river cobbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference