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# clave

«clave» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **stuck, clung; split** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

stuck, clung; split

### part of speech

verb, past tense of cleave

### meaning for a pupil

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

### how it differs from today

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

### primary record

stuck

### tests

manual 6; corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clave» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/clave/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.