uncleft
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
edituncleft (not comparable)
- Not cleft.
Noun
edituncleft (plural unclefts)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (puristic, nonstandard) atom
- 1989, Poul Anderson, “Uncleftish Beholdings”, in Analogue:
- The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts [, which was thought to be] a hard thing that could be split no further.
- 2011, Julian Montinaro, On the Fromth of the Lifekin, Lulu.com:
- [H]uge breaklings fall down [and] have to be worn away, uncleft by uncleft until lowered in size they can be rolled about by the waves[.]