cleft
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
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.
A piece made by splitting.
A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
(linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as "threat" in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
Split, divided, or partially divided into two.
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