Both Uses of
sever
in
The Old Man and the Sea
- There were two from each bait he had severed and the two from the bait the fish had taken and they were all . connected After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and cut it away too and link up the reserve coils.†
- ...and he drove the blade between the vertebrae and the brain. It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever.
*sever = split in two
Definition:
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(sever) to split something into two unconnected parts -- usually by cutting
or:
to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something