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CLOVEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cloven mean?
• CLOVEN (adjective)
The adjective CLOVEN has 1 sense:
1. (used of hooves) split, divided
Familiarity information: CLOVEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of hooves) split, divided
Synonyms:
bisulcate; cloven
Context example:
bisulcate hoof
Similar:
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
Context examples
They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cloven halves were not broken from each other, for the firm base and strong roots kept them unsundered below; though community of vitality was destroyed—the sap could flow no more: their great boughs on each side were dead, and next winter's tempests would be sure to fell one or both to earth: as yet, however, they might be said to form one tree—a ruin, but an entire ruin.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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