cloven

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Then the skies were cloven, and the tree Ygdrassil was shaken in all its roots.

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  • FMD remains an important and priority disease to be considered as a candidate for global eradication from the cloven-hoofed livestock population in the world. —  MercoPress
  • I didn't understand what was to be nervous about, all he did was yell some jibberish that usually involved some eyeglasses, a mother, and perhaps a cow, alpaca, or some other cloven-hoofed mammal. —  Maize n Brew
  • Of the cloven-hoofed animals, plain or with cheese, you may eat, but not in the living room. —  The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
  • But cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing animals, so-called ruminants like cows, sheep and goats - raised for meat and dairy products - release copious amounts of methane and nitrous oxide during their digestion processes. —  Inside Bay Area Most Viewed
  • And my family wonders why I turned my back on the ***** papacy and religion all together ... (as her cloven hooves dance a jig down the heathen road ...) 1 hr 5 min ago, -2 / +5No one seemed to have told "them" that and meant it. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
 

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  1. from Middle English cloven, from Anglo-Saxon clofen, past participle of cleófan, cleave: see cleave.
 

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/ˈkloʊvn/
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