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cleave through
Definition
to split something — especially with violent force
or:
to cut through something
or:
to cut through something
- He gave the word; and still gazing round him, was steadily lowered through the cloven blue air to the deck.Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (71% in)
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.Chapters 28-30 -- Ahab; (Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb); The Pipe (48% in)
There are no more uses of "cleave" flagged with this meaning in Moby Dick.
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- From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.Chapters 13-15 -- Wheelbarrow; Nantucket; Chowder (44% in)
- He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after him.Chapters 7-9 -- The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (71% in)
- From the vibrating line extending the entire length of the upper part of the boat, and from its now being more tight than a harpstring, you would have thought the craft had two keels—one cleaving the water, the other the air—as the boat churned on through both opposing elements at once.Chapters 61-63 -- Stubb Kills a Whale; The Dart; The Crotch (45% in)
- Unlike the straight perpendicular twin-jets of the Right Whale, which, dividing at top, fall over in two branches, like the cleft drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of the Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually rising and falling away to leeward.Chapters 85-87 -- The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (57% in)
There are no more uses of "cleave" in Moby Dick.
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