present participle and gerund of cleave
The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are mirrored, as if in its depths they had another home and another heaven. A spirit, cleaving air midway between the two, might have paused to ask which was sea, and which was sky.
That cleaves
The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
Many of Spenser's readers today find the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation […]
The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.
On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight.
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