Cleaving ppl. a.¹

[f. CLEAVE v.¹ + -ING².] That cleaves or splits.

1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VI. (1626), 109. The cleauing rock, from whence a fountayn brake.

1725.  Pope, Odyss., V. 189. He cut the cleaving sky.

1819.  Shelley, Let. Peacock, 25 Feb. Sky-cleaving mountains.