A cleaver splits with one heavy stroke, so dream books read it as a decisive cut — ending something cleanly or a fear of a sudden break. It stands for force used to divide.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.