All 16 Uses of
cleave
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high sleep bank, almost a cliff.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)
- _'But this one is taller than some and fairer than most, and he has a cleft in his chin: perky chap with a bright eye.†
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1)
- They made an undulating ridge, often rising almost to a thousand feet, and here and there falling again to low clefts or passes leading into the eastern land beyond.†
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1)
- Along the crest of the ridge the hobbits could see what looked to be the remains of green-grown walls and dikes, and in the clefts there still stood the ruins of old works of stone.†
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1)
- Slowly they crawled up to the edge of the ring again, and peered through a cleft between two jagged stones.
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1) *cleft = opening"Editor's Notes"Cleft is the past tense of cleave like left is past tense of leave.
Today, cleft is most seen in the form cleft palate or cleft lip to refer to medical conditions at birth.
- The travellers came into a long valley; narrow, deeply cloven, dark and silent.†
Chpt 1.12 (definition 1)
- Here and there old trees had been cut or broken down, and large rocks cloven or heaved aside to make a way.†
Chpt 1.12 (definition 1)
- He felt his tongue cleave to his mouth, and his heart labouring.
Chpt 1.12 (definition 2) *cleave = hold firmly
- They crossed the bridge and wound slowly up the long steep paths that led out of the cloven vale of Rivendell; and they came at length to the high moor where the wind hissed through the heather.†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 1)
- Over it a trickling water dripped, through a wide cleft that seemed to have been carved out by a fall that had once been strong and full.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)
- By both the doors they could now see that many bones were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and helms.†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)
- The orc fell with cloven head.†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)
- Down the deep-cloven way that climbs beside the torrent we should have come, if fortune had been kinder.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- He went forward and climbed down the deep-cloven bank and stepped into the stream.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote; There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 3) *
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.
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(2) (cleave as in: cleave to) to hold firmly to something -- such as an object, a person or ideaeditor's notes: Ironically, this word can mean to split in two or to hold together.
Note that you may see cleaved, clove, or clave as the past tense of this sense of cleave.
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)