Clave

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Archaic A past tense of cleave1.
  • v. Archaic A past tense of cleave2.
  • n. A cylindrical hardwood stick used in a pair as a percussion instrument.
  • n. A syncopated two-bar musical pattern.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of cleave.
  • n. One half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other.
  • n. A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. of cleave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Obsolete preterit of cleave or cleave.
  • n. A kind of stool used by ship-carpenters.
  • n. A graft; a scion.
  • Word Usage
    "She said no more at that time; but her word clave to"
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