cleavers


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Related to cleavers: Galium aparine
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Synonyms for cleavers

annual having the stem beset with curved prickles

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To the music of the band, and, the bells, the marrow-bones and cleavers, all at once; and while the Chimes were yet in lusty operation out of doors; Trotty, making Meg and Richard, second couple, led off Mrs.
"To be sure; to be sure," muttered the cleaver, musingly.
Get off from me!" cried a faint voice, at which his Majesty the cleaver said:
Then, when he had finished, he clattered the steel and cleaver still more loudly, shouting lustily, "Now, who'll buy?
Knife and cleaver had been left behind, but Brentwood still had his hands, and over and over on the ground he rolled with the poor little calf as he throttled it.
Her real name was Fanny Cleaver; but she had long ago chosen to bestow upon herself the appellation of Miss Jenny Wren.
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things.
"A butcher's cleaver that has done butcher's work."
THREE thugs armed with meat cleavers are wanted by police after a series of robberies over the weekend.
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"I have had to use Gary Dipple, Chis Reakes and Sam Robinson in there and while they did well none of them are real cleavers. Ben Barkley is a cleaver, though, and he gets us going forward.
A CRAZED Chinese chef challenged the boss who had just sacked him to a duel - with meat cleavers.
THIS article is all about cleavers. As in the weed (Galium aparine), rather than meat cleavers, as wielded aloft and buried in the kitchen table in close proximity to my dinner plate by Julie's mum when she's in a bad mood.
Some of the best alterative herbs to clear the lymph system are red root, cleavers, mullein, calendula, burdock, stinging nettles, sassafras, and red clover, although the list could go on.