All 4 Uses of
cleave
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- LE BRET (throwing back his head): He keeps it on—and cleaves in two any man who dares remark on it!†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- I've ten hearts in my breast; a score of arms; No dwarfs to cleave in twain!†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- (To a cook, showing him some loaves): You have put the cleft o' th' loaves in the wrong place; know you not that the coesura should be between the hemistiches?†
Act 2 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- CYRANO (cuffing his head): Clove-heads.†
Act 2 (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)