Cleaver and Sword

Cleaver

Cleaver noun - A butcher's knife having a large square blade.

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Sword and cleaver are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sword" instead a noun "Cleaver".

Nearby Words: cleave, cleavers, cleaving, cleaved

Sword noun - A hand weapon with a length of metal sharpened on one or both sides and usually tapered to a sharp point.

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Cleaver and sword are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cleaver" instead a noun "Sword".

Nearby Words: swordsman, swordsmanship

nice	nice cleaver	nice sword
regular	regular cleaver	regular sword
real	real cleaver	real sword
massive	massive cleaver	massive sword
Other adjectives: huge, unique, bloody, gigantic, giant.

Some other alternate weapons resemble some cleaver-sword and an axe-sword hybrids.

Source: Characters / Bloodline Champions
Friendly uses a sword once in the whole novel, and expresses distaste for it before leaving it in his victim and going back to his knife and cleaver.

Source: Literature / Best Served Cold
Thorin's acquired weapon Orcrist ("Goblin-cleaver"), the companion sword to Glamdring.

Source: Named Weapons

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