clevelt

cleve2t, v. cleve3t, n. An obsolete spelling of cleavel . An obsolete spelling of cleave2 . [ME., cleófa , cliófa , cleáfa , clūfa , clifa , a cell, chamber, lair, den, appar. cleave , separate, divide: see cleave2 .] A chamber. He caste him on his bac Ant bar him hom to hise cleue . Havelok , 1. 556. Wickednes thoght he, night and dai In his kleve thar he lai. Ps. xxxv. 5 (ME. version). cleve (klēv), n. [E. dial., cleve , also clefe , rare sing. from pl. cleves of cliff : see cliff1 .] An obsolete or dialectal form of cliff1 . Light and shadow, step by step, wandered over the furzy cleves. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, xix. cleveōt, n. [ME., also clive (spelled clyve ); prob. a ociated with cleve; only in the work quoted, translating L. clivus, a declivity, slope, hill: see clivus, clivous.] A hill; a hillside. Make hem lough [low] in cleves that declyne, In plaine or ronke lande hier [higher] may thai be, But bondes harde in vyne is not to se. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 72. Thai bere anoon in places tempo rate, And forth thai come in cleves and in planys. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. È. T. S.), p. 94.