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What is the noun for cleft?

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cleft
  1. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
  2. A piece made by splitting.
  3. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “You plunge into a winding cleft whose strata swirl across cliffs like a serrated knife through butter.”
      “I found a cleft in the smooth stone where I could rest my weary hand.”
clefting
  1. (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
  2. (linguistics) The formation of a cleft sentence.
cleftings
  1. plural of clefting
clefts
  1. plural of cleft
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Covers everything from run-of-the-mill clause types to such structures as clefts, pseudo-clefts, and topicalizations.”
      “Sometimes clefts run in families and sometimes a baby is born with a cleft without anyone else in the family having one.”
      “Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine.”
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