Definitions for cleft

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cleft cleft

Spelling: [kleft]

IPA: /klɛft/

Cleft is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in cleft (ceflt).

Definitions for cleft

noun

1. a space or opening made by cleavage; a split.
2. a division formed by cleaving.
3. a hollow area or indentation:
4. Veterinary Pathology. a crack on the bend of the pastern of a horse.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of cleave2 .

adjective

1. cloven; split; divided.
2. (of a leaf, corolla, lobe, or other expanded plant part) having divisions formed by incisions or narrow sinuses that extend more than halfway to the midrib or the base.

verb (used with object)

1. to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, especially along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.
2. to make by or as if by cutting:
3. to penetrate or pass through (air, water, etc.):
4. to cut off; sever:

verb (used without object)

1. to adhere closely; stick; cling (usually followed by to).
2. to remain faithful (usually followed by to):
3. to part or split, especially along a natural line of division.
4. to penetrate or advance by or as if by cutting (usually followed by through).

Origin of cleft

1300-50; Middle English clift, Old English (ge)clyft split, cracked; cognate with Old High German, Old Norse kluft; akin to cleave²

Examples for cleft

Put them, one at a time, into the cleft or split end of the larding-needle.

Like the Korean Peninsula, Illinois is cleft into two parts: Chicagoland and “downstate.”

Nelson was at this time, according to his own expression, placed in a cleft stick.

It was almost forty minutes to the dot when Hilary's head emerged from the cleft.

The Louisianians are coming up that cleft between the hills.

Pinnatifid: divided into feathers, as when wings are cleft nearly to the base.

We could see the shafts of the darts fast in the cleft, bristling in the moonlight.

He looked closer and saw that it grew out of the cleft in the rock.

Probably one or two braves had been left to watch the cleft.

The eyes of the men in the cleft below had followed the pointed sword.