Cleaver
Encyclopedia
Implement or device
- Cleaver (knife)Cleaver (knife)A cleaver is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed hatchet. It is used mostly for hacking through bones as a kitchen knife or butcher knife, and can also be used for crushing via its broad side, typically garlic....
is a type of large knife - Cleaver (tool)Cleaver (tool)In archaeology, a cleaver is a name given to a type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic.Cleavers are a little like hand axes. They are large and oblong or U-shaped tools meant to be held in the hand, but unlike hand axes, they have a wide, straight cutting edge running at right angles...
is a type of prehistoric stone tool - Cleaver (propeller)Cleaver (propeller)A Cleaver is a type of propeller design especially used for boat racing. Its leading edge is formed round, while the trailing edge is cut straight...
is a propeller design, esp. for high performance boat racing
In nature
- Cleaver, a type of arête, a ridge of rock that separates a unified flow of glacial ice from its uphill side into two glaciers flanking, and flowing parallel to, the ridge.
- Cleaver (plant) is a burr-bearing plant (Galium aparine)
People
- Cleaver BuntonCleaver BuntonCleaver Ernest Bunton AO OBE was a long serving Mayor of Albury, New South Wales, Australia, who came to national prominence in 1975 when he was controversially appointed to the Senate.-Early life:...
, Australian politician - Billy CleaverBilly CleaverWilliam 'Billy' Cleaver was a Welsh international fly-half who played club rugby for Cardiff. He won 14 caps for Wales and was selected to play in the British Lions on the 1950 tour of Australia and New Zealand...
, Wales international rugby union player - Eldridge CleaverEldridge CleaverLeroy Eldridge Cleaver better known as Eldridge Cleaver, was a leading member of the Black Panther Party and a writer...
, American civil rights leader - Emanuel CleaverEmanuel CleaverEmanuel Cleaver II is a United Methodist pastor and the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and in January 2010 became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus....
, Reverend, former mayor of Kansas City, MO, and current member of the U.S. House of Representatives - Gerald Cleaver (musician)Gerald Cleaver (musician)Gerald Cleaver is an African-American jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan. He joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995...
, jazz drummer - Gerald B. CleaverGerald B. CleaverGerald B. Cleaver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University and is the Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings division of Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research . His research specialty is string phenomenology and string...
, physicist - Harry CleaverHarry CleaverHarry Cleaver is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, where Cleaver teaches Marxism and Marxist economics. He is best known as the author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Dr...
, Marxist theorist - Kathleen Neal CleaverKathleen Neal CleaverKathleen Neal Cleaver is an American professor of law, known for her involvement with the Black Panther Party.- Early life :...
, wife of Eldridge Cleaver - Naomi CleaverNaomi CleaverNaomi Cleaver is a British design consultant and interior designer.She is also a television presenter of such programs as Other People's Houses and Channel 4's Honey I Ruined the House.-External links:*...
, British interior designer and TV presenter - Robert Cleaver, American WWII airman
- Solomon CleaverSolomon CleaverSolomon Cleaver was a Winnipeg minister and storyteller best known for his adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, published in 1935 as Jean Val Jean...
, Canadian writer - Sue CleaverSue CleaverSue Cleaver is an English actress. She is best known for her regular role in Coronation Street.She studied at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre and her first television appearance was a small part in an episode of A Touch of Frost...
, British actress
Fictional characters
From the US television series Leave It to Beaver:- June CleaverJune CleaverJune Evelyn Bronson Cleaver is a principal character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. June and her husband, Ward, are often invoked as the archetypal suburban parents of the 1950s. The couple are the parents of two sons, Wally and "Beaver"...
- Theodore CleaverTheodore CleaverTheodore "The Beaver" Cleaver is the fictional title character in the American television series Leave It to Beaver. Seven-year-old Beaver is son to June and Ward Cleaver and sibling to thirteen-year-old Wally Cleaver .Beaver prefers "messin' around" with his pals and reading comic books to...
("the Beaver") - Wally CleaverWally CleaverWallace "Wally" Cleaver is a fictional character in the iconic American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Wally is the thirteen-year-old son of archetypal 50s suburban parents, Ward and June Cleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old title character, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver...
- Ward CleaverWard CleaverWard Cleaver is a fictional character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Ward and his wife, June, are often invoked as archetypal suburban parents of the babyboomer 1950s. The couple are the parents of Wally, a thirteen-year-old in the eighth grade, and seven-year-old ...
Other
- Cleaver (geometry)Cleaver (geometry)In geometry, a cleaver of a triangle is a line segment that bisects the perimeter of the triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the three sides.* Each cleaver is parallel to one of the angle bisectors of the triangle....
, a special segment in a triangle - Cleaver (The Sopranos)Cleaver (The Sopranos)Cleaver is a metafictional film within a tv-series that serves as an important plot element toward the end of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos. Although very little film material is actually shown in the series, its planning and development are discussed at large throughout multiple...
, a fictional film made and produced by fictional characters on the series The Sopranos