cleave

To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

The wings clove the foggy air.

O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.

To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

The truck clove a path through the ice.

(chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

To split.

And it came to passe as he had made an ende of speaking all these words, that the ground claue asunder that was vnder them:

Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.

A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.

There are very striking scenes on some of the lesser streams at this portion of their course. The deep gorge of the Lyd is famous. In the "cleaves," or cleft rocky valleys of Lustleigh and of the Tavy, many a long summer day may be spent with delight; and the Erme, which descends by Ivy Bridge, is not less worthy of a pilgrimage. As the rivers leave the moorland they are crossed by venerable and picturesque bridges which, like that of Harford in our illustration, sometimes afford an admirable framework for the distant landscape.

The valley by which the Taw leaves the Moor forms one of the cleaves that add so greatly to the attractions of the place, and this bears the same name as the parish.

Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.

And they lift vp their voyce, and wept againe: and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth claue vnto her.

Neuerthelesse, hee cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne; he departed not therefrom.