All 4 Uses of
cleave
in
The Gunslinger
- THE CLOVEN HOOF!†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- A large and purple cloven hoof had been pressed into the skin of his grimy forehead.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- He disappeared into the cleft in the rock from which the water spewed at full force.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- Its hands were limp and fishlike, dead; the fingers clove to one another like the fingers of a glove long im-mersed in drying mud.†
Chpt 4 (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)