Definitions
A split, crack, or narrow opening.
Word origin
From Middle English clift, from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz, equivalent to cleave + -t (“-th”). Compare Dutch klucht (“coarse comedy”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”), German Kluft. See cleave.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“a cleft of wood”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rock fissure”5 letters
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