OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12165

cleft

/klɛft/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hendidura
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.
Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.
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