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addabox
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: oaktown
 
2011-04-11, 16:40

I think cleave can be used solo for cut-- you can cleave your bonds, or cleave the fatted calf (root of cleaver, after all). "Cleave to" seems to be the preferred construction for attaching, however. I'm very curious how we got from one to the other, and which came first.

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