Cleaving

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In agriculture, a method of plowing over old ridges or ‘lands,’ in which each ridge is divided in the middle, the furrow-slices being turned in opposite directions.
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  • verb. Present participle of cleave.
  • Word Usage
    "So I went back to my empty dreams, to my phantasmagoria of illusions; but sometimes, like a sword cleaving a mist, through the high lands and the low lands and seas of my visions floated, like half-forgotten music, the sheen of dark eyes and shimmery hair."
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