Defn: One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
CLEAVERS
Cleav"ers, n. Etym: [From Cleave to stick.] (Bot.)
Defn: A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; — called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
CLECHE
Clé`ché", a. Etym: [F. cléché.] (Her.)
Defn: Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; — said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.
CLECHY
Cle"chy, a.
Defn: See Cléché.
CLEDGE
Cledge, n. Etym: [Cf. Clay.] (Mining.)
Defn: The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
CLEDGY
Cledg"y, a.