2. Noun. (context: Now chiefly dialectal) A cottage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cleve
1. a cliff [n -S] - See also: cliff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleve
Literary usage of Cleve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1892)
"In the foreground lies cleve, and farther off the villages of ... Beyond cleve
the Rhenish Railway pursues its N. direction, crosses the Rhine by means of a ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Nothing wrong in Brandenburg, indeed; but the great cleve Heritage is dropping,
... How the cleve Heritage dropped, and many sprang to pick it up. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"The Country at that time called Duchy of cleve, consisted, as we said above, not
only of cleve-Proper, but of two other still better Duchies, ..."
4. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1892)
"Beyond cleve the Rhenish Railway pursues its N. direction, crosses the Rhine by
means of a ... From cleve diligence once daily in l'/4 hr. to (8 M.) Calcar, ..."
5. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1901)
"Thence to cleve, express in 2'/« hrs., via Neust, Crefeld, and Ooch. ... VISITORS'
TAX for a stay of more than a week, 5 ,U. cleve, Dutch Kleef, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"cleve was talking in a state of positive exasperation. ... cleve dear"—she called
him And as she spoke, the kind old lady was shaking both his hands, ..."
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