meat-chopper

noun

meat-chopper

noun
1

A large, heavy bladed knife for cutting raw meat.

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

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