All 12 Uses of
cleave
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Stephen bent forward and peered at the mirror held out to him, cleft by a crooked crack.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- A dumb belch of hunger cleft his speech.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *
- Cleave to her!†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- From drains, clefts, cesspools, middens arise on all sides stagnant fumes.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- The navvy, staggering forward, cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding on the farther side under the railway bridge bloom appears, flushed, panting, cramming bread and chocolate into a sidepocket.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- The camel, lifting a foreleg, plucks from a tree a large mango fruit, offers it to his mistress, blinking, in his cloven hoof, then droops his head and, grunting, with uplifted neck, fumbles to kneel.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- THE LOITERERS: (Guffaw with cleft palates) O jays!†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- The cloven sex.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Clove her breath was always in theatre when she bent to ask a question.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2) *
- And they laughed, sporting in a circle of their foam: and the bark clave the waves.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (cleave as in: cleave through) to split or cut through somethingeditor's notes: Ironically, this word can mean to split in two or to hold together.
Note that you may see cleaved, cleft, clove, or cloven as the past tense of this sense of cleave.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)