What is the meaning of Cleft?

An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

A piece made by splitting.

A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."

simple past and past participle of cleave

split, divided, or partially divided into two.

klepht

Source: wiktionary.org