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▪ I. cleve1, cleeve Now local.|kliːv|
Forms: 3 cleof, clef, cleoue, 3–7 cleue, 5 clefe, 6–7 clief, clieue, 4– cleve, 6– cleeve (9 improp. cleave).
[ME. cleof, cleove, a variant of clif, cliff, founded on the OE. pl. forms cleofu, cleofum (eo = u-fracture of i). (Sometimes erroneously spelt cleave and associated with cleave to split, with which it has no connexion.) In many local names, e.g. Clevedon, Cleveland, Cleeve Hill, Old Cleeve. Cf. cleo, cliff.]
1. = cliff. dial.[a1000Riddles iv. 28 Ofer cald cleofu.] c1275Lay. 1915 Was þe cleue swiþe heh. Ibid. 1926 Þat clef [c 1205 clif] þare. a1400Morte Arth. 2396 A knyghte in theis klevys, enclesside with hilles. 1529Rastell Pastyme Prol. (1811) 5 The white Cleevys and Rokkys at Douer. 1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 213 Called Albion..of the White Rockes and Cleues, whiche appere vpon the sea costes. 1555Fardle Facions ii. ix. 203 Vpon the toppe of a high clieue, hangyng ouer the Sea. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) I. 734/2 Fenced with high Rocks and Cleaves. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xviii. (R.), Rob Dover's neighbouring cleeves of sampyre. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv, O ye sea-binding cleeves! [c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §225 (1810) 240 They tumble over cliff (rimes with relief).] †2. The coast or shore of the sea. Obs.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1466 Hipsiphile & Medea, Roamyng on the clyvys [v.r. cleuys, clevis] by the se. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 37 (Mätz), Wighte..is in þe est side sex myle from þe souþ of Bretayne cleef [a meridiano Britanniæ littore]. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xii. i. (Tollem. MS.), And draweþ þe pray..to þe cleue [ad littus trahit].
3. A steep sloping ground, the steep side of a hill; = Sc. brae. (The common sense in s.w. of England, and well known on Dartmoor.)
c1275Lay. 20861 Þanne flieþ he [þe fox] to þan cleoue and his hol secheþ. Ibid. 20847 In þan wilde cleues. c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 167 Two foote and half the feeld, and three the cleves. 1499Promp. Parv. (Pynson), Clefe of an hyll, declivum. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 872 By grassy bank or cleve. 1880Blackmore M. Anerley I. vi. 64 Furzy cleve for hare and partridge. 1882Athenæum 26 Aug. 265/3 Every one who has once seen Dartmoor knows exactly what is meant by a tor and a cleave. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Cleeve, a steep field; any steep, sloping ground; the side of a hill.
▪ II. † cleve2 Obs.
[OE. cleofa (clifa, cliofa, clyfa), identical with ON. klefi (klifi):—OTeut. type *kliƀon-.]
A room, chamber, sleeping-place, closet.
c825Vesp. Psalter xxxv[i]. 4 Unrehtwisnisse smeᵹende is in bedcleofan his [Vulg. in cubili suo]. c890K. ælfred Bæda iii. xxiii, On ðam clifum ðe dracan oneardedon [Isa. xxxv. 7]. c1000Ags. Ps. xxxv[i]. 4 On his cliofan. c1000ælfric Colloquy in Wr.-Wülcker 98 Hwa ᵹefylþ cleafan his [cellaria sua] oþþe hedderna buton cræfte minon? a1300E.E. Psalter xxxv[i]. 4 (Mätz.), Wickednes thoght he, night and dai, In his kleve þar he lai. Ibid. cxliii[i]. 13 Cleves of þa full er yhit [Vulg. promptuaria]. c1300Havelok 557 Sone he caste him on his bac, Ant bar him hom to hise cleue.
▪ III. cleve, clevien, clevy
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