[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cleave \cleave\ kl=ev, v. t. imp. cleft kle^ft,
   clave kl=av, obs., clove kl=ov, obsolescent; p.
   p. cleft, cleaved kl=evd or cloven kl=o"v'n; p.
   pr.  vb. n. cleaving. oe. cleoven, cleven, as.
   cle'ofan; akin to os. klioban, d. klooven, g. klieben,
   icel. klj=ufa, sw. klyfva, dan. kl"ove and prob. to gr.
   gly`fein to carve, l. glubere to peel. cf. cleft.
   1. to part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
      1913 webster

            o hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to part or open naturally; to divide.
      1913 webster

            every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
            cleft into two claws.                 --deut. xiv.
                                                  6.
      1913 webster
see also:
cleft clave clove cleaved cloven cleaving 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cleft \cleft\ kle^ft,
   imp.  p. p. from cleave.
   1913 webster
see also:
cleave 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cleft \cleft\, a.
   1. divided; split; partly divided or split.
      1913 webster

   2. bot. incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
      1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cleft \cleft\, n. oe. clift; cf. sw. klyft cave, den, icel.
   kluft cleft, dan. kl"oft, g. kluft. see cleave to split
   and cf. 2d clift, 1st clough.
   1. a space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice;
      as, the cleft of a rock. --is. ii. 21.
      1913 webster

   2. a piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
      1913 webster

   3. far. a disease in horses; a crack on the band of the
      pastern.
      1913 webster

   branchial clefts. see under branchial.

   syn: crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny.
        1913 webster
see also:
cleave clift clough branchial clefts branchial 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cleft
     see cleave
see also:
cleave 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cleft
     adj 1: used of hooves syn: cloven, bisulcate
     2: having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib
        syn: dissected
     n 1: a split or indentation in something as the palate or chin
     2: a long narrow opening syn: crack, crevice, fissure, scissure
see also:
cloven bisulcate dissected crack crevice fissure 
scissure 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cleave
     v 1: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument;
          "cleave the bone" syn: split, rive
     2: make by cutting into; "the water is going to cleave a
        channel into the rock"
     3: come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and
        resist separation; "the dress clings to her body"; "the
        label stuck to the box"; "the sushi rice grains cohere"
        syn: cling, adhere, stick, cohere
     also: cloven, clove, cleft
see also:
split rive cling adhere stick cohere 
cloven clove cleft 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

171 moby thesaurus words for "cleft":
   abysm, abyss, alienation, aperture, arroyo, bifurcated, bisected,
   blaze, box canyon, branched, branching, breach,
   breach of friendship, break, breakage, broaching, burst, canyon,
   cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, clearing,
   cleavage, cleuch, clough, clove, cloven, col, coulee, couloir,
   crack, cracked, cranny, crena, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile,
   dehiscent, dell, depression, dichotomous, dike, dimidiate,
   disaffection, disclosure, disfavor, disruption, disunion, disunity,
   ditch, divergence, divided, dividedness, division, donga, draw,
   estrangement, excavation, falling-out, fault, fenestra, fissure,
   fissured, fissury, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, forked,
   forking, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gat,
   gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halved, hiatus, hole,
   hollow, in pieces, in shreds, incision, indentation, inlet,
   interval, jag, jog, joggle, joint, kerf, kloof, lacerate,
   lacerated, lacuna, laying open, leak, mangled, moat, mutilated,
   nick, nock, notch, nullah, open rupture, opening, opening up,
   orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pore, quartered,
   ragged, ramified, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rift, rime,
   rimose, rimulose, rip, riven, rupture, scale, schism, scissure,
   score, scotch, seam, separation, severed, shredded, slash, slice,
   slit, slot, space, splinter, splintered, split, stoma, tattered,
   tear, throwing open, torn, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley,
   void, wadi, yawn

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