Cleft

1. imp. of Cleave
2. imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
3. a. Divided; split; partly divided or split.
4. a. Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
5. n. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
6. n. A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.