Cleaver vs Claymore - What's the difference?
cleaver | claymore |
A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
A large two-handed sword historically used by the Scottish Highlanders.
The Scottish basket-hilted broadsword used during the early modern period.
(usually capitalized) A Claymore antipersonnel mine.
As a noun cleaver
is cleaver.As a proper noun claymore is
an american-made anti-personnel mine designed to lay down a wide arc of steel ball bearings in order to inflict casualties.cleaver
English
Noun
(en noun)- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...