Definition of "cleaving" [cleaving]

• Present participle of cleave. (verb)

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• "So I went back to my empty dreams, to my phantasmagoria of illusions; but sometimes, like a sword cleaving a mist, through the high lands and the low lands and seas of my visions floated, like half-forgotten music, the sheen of dark eyes and shimmery hair."
• "Then he was among the robbers, his sword cleaving left and right."
• "She saw again the fluttering wings, and the iron sword cleaving down."