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Answer for the clue "Split with a hatchet ", 7 letters:
cleaved

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Word definitions for cleaved in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. cleft or cloven

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), v. t. [imp. Cleft (kl[e^]ft), Clave (kl[=a]v, Obs.), Clove (kl[=o]v, Obsolescent); p. p. Cleft , Cleaved (kl[=e]vd) or Cloven (kl[=o]"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaving .] [OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle['o]fan; akin to OS. ...

Usage examples of cleaved.

A village seven miles from Woodsite, calm in its half-deserted state, with its men all at business in New York, was cleaved, as it were, by the racing machines, while women and children ran and screamed to escape from the path of the monsters.

In a clean dive she cleaved the water and with long, flowing strokes swam a good distance out to sea.

A tall fin cleaved the surface a moment later, and the bellow of the mate announced that he had also sighted the shark.

Clasping hands, they ran into the water, dove, and cleaved the surface as one.

His body cleaved the air in a shallow arc, and he struck the smooth surface almost flat.

It cleaved a broad path before him, sending soldiers and partygoers reeling and flying in its path, knocking a wide circumference of open space between him and the King.

A left-handed scion of the old house of Malvallet, Simon cleaved for himself a new name and a new title.

Tholian thrust forward then, and Sulu brought his shield up in time to avoid a blow that would have cleaved his shoulder from the rest of his body.

He wore a chest-hugging, bronze T-shirt, that deepened the golden highlights in his eyes, black jeans that cleaved his male assets in all the right places.

If the blow had landed, it would have cleaved me from crotch to sternum.