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cloven

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clo·ven  (klvn)
v.
A past participle of cleave1.
adj.
Split; divided.

cloven [ˈkləʊvən]
vb
a past participle of cleave1
adj
split; cleft; divided
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Adj.1.cloven - (used of hooves) split, divided; "bisulcate hoof"
divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"

cloven
adjective split, divided, cleft, bisected The tracks were made by an animal with a cloven hoof.


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He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel.
As they have cloven feet, they sometimes strike up the stones when they run, which gave occasion to the notion that they threw stones at the hunters, a relation equally to be credited with those of their eating fire and digesting iron.
It was ribbed with sharp, steep ridges and cloven with narrow canyons, and here and there on the heights, rocky upheavals shaped themselves into mimic battlements and castles; and out of rifted clouds came broad shafts of sunlight, that painted summit, and slope and glen, with bands of fire, and left belts of somber shade between.
 
 
 
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