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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.

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.

imp. of cleave.

n. Obsolete preterit of cleave or cleave.

n. A kind of stool used by ship-carpenters.

n. A graft; a scion.

"She said no more at that time; but her word clave to"

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