All 4 Uses of
cleave
in
Dune
- Paul stood up, emerging into moonlight above his concealing cleft, slipped the Fremen weapon back into his sash.†
Book 2
- He scrambled out of the cleft, followed the swirling of her robe across a tumbled landscape.†
Book 2 *
- Paul turned his head upward as he walked, seeing the tapestry of this planet cut in cross section where the narrow cleft gaped toward gray-blue sky.†
Book 2
- Stilgar turned away, led them down through the rocks, a twisting and turning path into a shadowed cleft that admitted them to the low entrance of a cave.†
Book 3
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.