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Meanings of cloven in English

(Used of hooves) split, divided.

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Usage of cloven in English
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She was proceeding in the direction the broad cloven hoof marks indicated.
The Forfeit
2
I was almost happy; the cloven hoof had peeped so damningly out.
Romance
3
Feuds and wars have cloven a right smart of bonds in twain.
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
4
But here Slavery showed its cloven foot in all its hideous deformity.
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5
We must maintain it, unless we are cloven down by superior force.
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6
Still wearing their cloven hooves, they swagger out to take their bow.
Wolf hall
7
A glaistig stood with her cloven feet in an old-fashioned gunfighter's stance.
Fragile Eternity
8
To doubt his spiked tail and cloven hoofs, would almost be heresy.
The Tyranny of Weakness
9
The knight's sword whirled and flashed with a wht of cloven air.
Divide and Rule
10
What pass or cranny in that precipice is cloven for its escape?
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
11
Goaty moaned in fright and stopped, trembling from head to cloven hoofs.
Night gate
12
His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.
The two towers
13
Those cataracts of cloven earth; they were done by the grace of God.
Alarms and Discursions
14
The cloven-footed animals gnaw through the icy bark on the trees.
The blood spilt
15
The philanthropist of Geneva shows the cloven hoof now and then.
Youth and Egolatry
16
This fellow believed in the devil, and his devil had a cloven hoof.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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Cloven across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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