meat-chopper

English

Noun

meat-chopper (plural meat-choppers)

  1. A large, heavy bladed knife for cutting raw meat.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 230:
      I put out my hand and felt the meat-chopper hanging to the wall. In a flash I was after him.
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