Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divide; open; cleave asunder.
- To cleave apart; break.
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- verb transitive, dialectal, obsolete To
divide ;split open ; cleaveasunder . - verb intransitive, dialectal, obsolete To split apart;
break .
Etymologies
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From Middle English tocleven, frm Old English tōclēofan ("to split apart, cleave asunder"), from Proto-Germanic *tō-kliubanan (“to split apart”), equivalent to to- + cleave (“to split”). Cognate with Old High German zechluiban ("to split apart, cleave asunder").
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