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# clave

verb, past tense of cleave

«clave» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Either stuck fast to something, or split apart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clave/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used. Today we say "clung" or "stuck" for holding fast, and "split" for breaking apart. No example sentence is given here.

### Note

Today: stuck, clung; split.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clave» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clave/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clave» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/clave.html) on Mova free.