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▪ I. cleaving, vbl. n.1|ˈkliːvɪŋ|
[f. cleave v.1]
1. The action of the vb. cleave; splitting.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 151 Sectio, cliofung. c1440Promp. Parv. 82 Clyuynge or departynge [1499 cleuynge], scissura. 1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 356 Let us take the axe..and settle ourselves to cleaving and riveing. 1865J. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 15 Cleaving is an art in which none can excel but those who practise it early.
b. intr.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Seasoning of Timber, Submerging it in Water, to prevent cleaving.
2. concr. A cleft, fissure; parting of the limbs (cf. cleft 2).
c1400Mandeville viii. 86 The Rocke cleef in two, and in that clevyng was our Lord hidd. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. (1682) 150 They bind a strong rope about his shoulders and cleavings. 1724in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1763) 322 Syne in the cleaving of a craig She found him drown'd in Yarrow.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 199 With the Cleaving-knife and the Mawl, split it into a square piece. 1861Macm. Mag. III. 185/2 The cleaving property of the diamond.
▪ II. cleaving, vbl. n.2|ˈkliːvɪŋ|
[f. cleave v.2]
The action of adhering or sticking to.
c1430Cookery Bks. (E.E.T.S.) 42 But ware of cleuyng to the panne. c1440Promp. Parv. 8 Clyuynge to, or fastenynge to a þynge [1499 cleuynge], adhesio. 1655Ref. Commw. Bees 60 To keep asunder the wax from cleaving.
b. fig. (see the verb).
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Entretenement, an entertaining, a cleauing one to an other. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §54. 94 A precise cleaving..to Gods word. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xvii. (1876) 215 The instinctive cleaving of every thing that lives to its own existence.
▪ III. cleaving, ppl. a.1|ˈkliːvɪŋ|
[f. cleave v.1 + -ing2.]
That cleaves or splits.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. (1626) 109 The cleauing rock, from whence a fountayn brake. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 189 He cut the cleaving sky. 1819Shelley Let. Peacock 25 Feb., Sky-cleaving mountains.
▪ IV. ˈcleaving, ppl. a.2
[f. cleave v.2 + -ing2.]
†1. As adj. Adhesive; clinging; clammy. Obs.
c1350Hampole in Archæol. XIX. 322 His fete schul wexe colde, his womb clevyng. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 118 The nature of a passyon of ire or fylthy pleasure of the body is so viscose & cleuynge. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 85 Fat and pitch being cleaving bodies.
2. That cleaves, adheres, or clings.
1641Milton Ch. Discip. ii. (1851) 55 A cleaving curse be his inheritance to all generations. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 164 So to..fasten myself upon him by the most Cleaving Love. 1846Trench Mirac. x. (1862) 214 The cleaving taint which is theirs by birth.
†b. fig. Abiding, lasting, persistent.
1340Ayenb. 54 Þise sceles byeþ zuo cleuiinde þet þe wyseste and þe holyiste man byeþ oþerhuyl becaȝt. Ibid. 107 Þe memorie is zuo cleuiynde ine him. |