Cleaver

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The word cleaver has a number of uses:

• Cleaver (knife) is a large form of knife.
• Cleaver (geology), in descriptive geology, is 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)
• Cleaver (tool) is a type of prehistoric stone tool.
• Cleaver (propeller) is a propeller design, esp. for high performance boat racing

[edit] People

• Cleaver Bunton, Australian politician
• Eldridge Cleaver, American civil rights leader
• Emanuel Cleaver, Reverend, former mayor of Kansas City, MO, and current member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Gerald Cleaver, jazz drummer
• Gerald B. Cleaver, physicist
• Harry Cleaver, Marxist theorist
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver, wife of Eldridge Cleaver
• Naomi Cleaver, British interior designer and TV presenter
• Robert Cleaver, American WWII airman
• Solomon Cleaver, Canadian writer
• Steven Cleaver, American Author
• Sue Cleaver, British actress
• Ward Cleaver (DJ)

[edit] Fictional characters

• June Cleaver, Theodore Cleaver, Wally Cleaver and Ward Cleaver from US television series Leave It to Beaver.

[edit] Other

• Cleaver (The Sopranos), a fictional film made and produced by fictional characters on the series The Sopranos.
• Cleaver (geometry), a special segment in a triangle.