noun, adjective-see also CLEAVEv.
noun a natural opening or crack, for example in the ground or in rock, or in a person's chin:
a cleft in the rocks * They walked up a cleft in the hills.
Part of speech: adjective
IDIOMS
be (caught) in a cleft stick to be in a difficult situation when any action you take will have bad results
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, cleft is tagged as adjective.
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