fendeur, n.m., cleaver, slitter, splitter. — de roues; wheel-cutter.
*se fendiller, v.r., to slit; to chink; to crack.
fendoir, n.m., cleaver; chopper.
fendre, v.a., to cleave, to split, to rive, to crack, to cut open, to rend, to rip; to break; to burst. — du bois; to cleave wood. Un navire qui fend l’eau; a ship that plows the sea. — les airs; to cleave the air. — la presse; to break through the crowd.
se fendre, v.r., to cleave, to burst asunder, to split, to slit; to chap, to chink, to rive, to gape; (fenc.) to lunge.
fendre, v.n., to be ready to split; to break, to burst. La tête me fend; my head is ready to split.
fendu, -e, part., cleft, split, cloven. Bien —; long-legged. Des yeux bien —s; large, well-shaped eyes.
fêne, n.f. V. faîne.
fenestré, -e, adj. V. fenêtré.
fenêtrage, n.m., fenestration, windows, lights.