Meat cleaver

Meat cleaver
Classification:	Item
Genres:	All genres
Franchises:	Friday the 13th Planet of the Apes Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Associated films:	Belko Experiment, The Seven Psychopaths Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Related articles:	Butcher knife

A meat cleaver is a bladed instrument used for chopping up food. Unlike a knife, a meat cleaver does not have a tapered point, but rather has a rectangular blade with a single straight edge. Its design is specifically for chopping and not slicing or stabbing. The density of the blade makes it ideal for cutting up pieces of food that are otherwise too tough for other instruments, including meat that might have small pieces of bone or cartilage, or thick strands of fat.

Appearances

• Belko Experiment, The: Wendell Dukes uses a meat cleaver as a favored weapon during the Belko Industries mass murder event.
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - Part of Caesar's collected weapons arsenal.
• Friday the 13th Part 3
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Seven Psychopaths
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (2003): While hiding from Leatherface at the Blair Meat Co., a woman named Erin grabs a meat cleaver and attacks Leatherface, hacking at him several times until ultimately cutting off his arm.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning: Thomas Hewitt uses a meat cleaver to chop up some bits of beef on his last day of employment at the Lee Bros. Meat Processing Plant before being instructed to go home.
• Thing from Another World, The

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