Synonyms:
cleft, dissected
Meaning: having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
cleft
Meaning: a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
Usage examples
The red dragon was slain, and the white one, gliding through a cleft in the rock, disappeared.
It has a horn upon its nose, about a cubit in length; this horn is solid, and cleft through the middle.
A slanting cleft in the stone could be climbed easily, but it seemed incredible that this might be the only entrance.
It is cleft incessantly from bottom to surface, bubbles rise and whirlpools are formed, and a long strip of lake foams and spurts.
P.S.--Just as I had written the last word, a Kafir came up my avenue of orange trees, carrying a letter in a cleft stick, which he had brought from the post.
Then into every cleft that stood in the rocks Slid sent his hugest wave and others followed behind it, and Slid himself seized hold of huge rocks with his claws and tore them down and stamped them under his feet.
And "Little will it help to us," he cried, "to escape the jaws of the whirlpool; for in that cave lives Scylla, the sea-hag with a young whelp's voice; my mother warned me of her ere we sailed away from Hellas; she has six heads, and six long necks, and hides in that dark cleft.
We pulled easily, by Silver's directions, not to weary the hands prematurely, and after quite a long passage, landed at the mouth of the second river--that which runs down a woody cleft of the Spy-glass. Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau.