Both Uses of
cleave
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Out by the Cleft Tor, I think.†
Chpt 9 *
- But down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(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.