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Cleading vs Cleaving - What's the difference?

cleading | cleaving |

As nouns the difference between cleading and cleaving

is that cleading is a jacket or outer covering to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder, etc of a steam engine while cleaving is the act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.

As a verb cleaving is

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cleading

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A jacket or outer covering to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder, etc. of a steam engine.
  • The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)

    cleaving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
  • * 2010 , Greg Kucich, Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (page 273)
    • 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.
  • * 1813 , John Owen, The grace and duty of being spiritually minded
    • On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight .