All 6 Uses of
cleave
in
A Wrinkle in Time
- Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him
By help of their most potent ministers,
And in their most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain….p. 113.2cloven = split
- "she did confine thee …. into a cloven pine—" he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who's words to him.
p. 162.7
- It was the witch who put Ariel in the cloven pine, wasn't it?
p. 163.0
- You're like Ariel in the cloven pine, Charles.
p. 163.2
- Your cloven pine thing.
p. 163.9
- Isn't Father imprisoned in a cloven pine even more than Charles?
p. 163.9 *cloven = spliteditor's notes: Meg is referring to a quotation from Shakespeare's The Tempest about a character imprisoned by magic in a cloven pine, but who is later released by a magician. Calvin previously used the quote while trying to free Charles.
Definitions:
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(1)
(cleave as in: cleave through) to split or cut through somethingIronically, 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)
(cleave as in: cleave to) to hold firmly to something -- such as an object, a person or ideaIronically, 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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
a proper noun or other word too rare to warrant focus