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verb
To divide; split open; cleave asunder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To split apart; break.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
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History
From Middle English tocleven, from Old English tōclēofan (“to split apart, cleave asunder”), from Proto-Germanic *tōkliubaną (“to split apart”), equivalent to to- + cleave (“to split”). Cognate with Old High German zechluiban (“to split apart, cleave asunder”).
