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Cleaver vs Cleaner - What's the difference?

cleaver | cleaner |

As nouns the difference between cleaver and cleaner

is that cleaver is cleaver while cleaner is a person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.

As an adjective cleaner is

(clean).

cleaver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • 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:...

    Related terms

    * cleave

    cleaner

    English

    Etymology 1

    (clean) (agent noun)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things.
  • A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
  • A cleaning detergent.
  • (in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).
    • I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners .
    Derived terms
    * cleaner fish * vacuum cleaner
    Related terms
    * take to the cleaners

    Etymology 2

    clean +

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (clean)

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