Definition for CLOVE

CLOVE, n.1 [D. kloof. See Cleave.]

A cleft; a fissure; a gap; a ravine. This word, though properly an appellative, is not often used as such in English; but it is appropriated to particular places, that are real clefts, or which appear as such; as, the Clove of Kaaterskill, in the state of New-York, and the Stony Clove. It is properly a Dutch word. – Journ. of Science.

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