Synonyms:
cleave, split, rive
Meaning: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
Usage examples
Cleave to your kind.
"Cleave to your kind!
Then came a mighty crash and a great blaze of lightning seemed to cleave the sky straight down the center.
Secondly, that man might love woman all the more, and cleave to her more closely, knowing her to be fashioned from himself.
The same pressure which has caused the rock to cleave has set free some of its mineral constituents along the cleavage planes to crystallize there as mica.
Pressure has hardened the marine muds, the arkose, or the volcanic ash from which slates are derived, and has caused them to cleave by the rearrangement of their particles.
Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough-share the wheat-bearing fields, was easier than the works of Athena, with which they were busied aforetime.
And even as ploughing oxen toil as they cleave the moist earth, and sweat streams in abundance from flank and neck; and from beneath the yoke their eyes roll askance, while the breath ever rushes from their mouths in hot gasps; and all day long they toil, planting their hoofs deep in the ground; like them the heroes kept dragging their oars through the sea.