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English : habitational name from Cleaves in Devon (see Cleve).
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English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
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n.
A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.
n.
One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
v. i.
To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.