Cleave may refer to:
- Cleave (fiber), a controlled break in optical fiber
- RAF Cleave, airbase in Cornwall, England, 1939-1945
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Famous quotes containing the word cleave:
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis, 2:24.
“The old coat that I wear is Concord; it is my morning robe and study gown, my working dress and suit of ceremony, and my nightgown after all. Cleave to the simplest ever. Home,—home,—home. Cars sound like cares to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Like a tale of little meaning though the words are strong;
Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil,
Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil,
Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil;
Till they perish and they suffer—some, ‘tis
whispered—down in hell”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)