verb

• (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
  "The wings clove the foggy air."
• (transitive, mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
• (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
  "The truck clove a path through the ice."
• (transitive) (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

noun

• (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.

verb

• (intransitive, rare) Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.
  "And they lift vp their voyce, and wept againe: and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth claue vnto her."