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m.2) door-groove; lúka upp hurðu, or lúka aptr hurð, árniðjan klofa, to open, or shut, the door halfway; hurð hnigin á miðjan klofa, half shut; reka aptr hurðina (or lúka hurðinni) í klofa, to shut the door;3) the forks to support tents on board a ship (höggva tjöldin or klofum);4) snuffers.* * *a, m. a cleft or rift in a hill closed at the upper end; metaph., þeir vóru komnir í svá mikinn klofa, at Ingjaldr var á aðra hönd, en Laxá á aðra hönd, i. e. they were ‘in a cleft stick,’—the enemy on one hand, the river on the other, Ld. 46; so also as a military term; at samnaðr væri á Rangár-völlum ok væri sú ráðagörð, at þeim sé ætlað at verða í klofanum, ‘were in a cleft stick,’ ‘caught in a trap,’ Sturl. i. 201; mun ek ok senda lið til fulltings við yðr, ok skal þat koma á bak þeim, svá at þeir verði í klofanum, Fas. i. 33; ok var svá stefnt at hann skyldi þaðan at koma, ok skyldi Þorfinnr verða í klofanum, Orkn. 68: fjalla-klofi, a ravine with a bottom, Stj. 87, Al. 26: landa-klofi, a delta at the fork of a river, Sks. 194, 199; lausa-klofi, gramm. a diphthong (au, ei, ey), Skálda 170: medic., gin-klofi, q. v.2. the groove (hurðar-klofi) in which the door moves up and down instend of moving on hinges (see hníga III); hence the phrases, lúka upp hurðu, or lúka aptr hurð á miðjan klofa, to open or shut the door to the middle of the groove, i. e. shut it half way, Bárð. 171, Fb. i. 547; hurð hnigin á miðjan klofa, half shut, Fms. iii. 74, Fas. iii. 546; hann gengr þar til er hann kemr at hurðu, hón var greypt í stokk ok hnigin eigi allt í klofa, Fb. i. 258; hann svarar ílla ok rak aptr hurðina í klofa, Gullþ. 15; eptir þat opar Þorbjörn inn undan, ok lauk hurðinni í klofa, 18.3. the forks to support tents on board a ship, Edda (Gl.); þá bað hann með sína ganga ytra með borðum, ok höggva tjöldin ór klofum, Eg. 122: a place in a ship = klofa-rúm, því skal hlaða í klofa inn, N. G. L. ii. 276.4. a forked mast, used in boats on the west coast of Icel.5. snuffers; göra skaltú klofa af gulli ljós at slökkva, Stj. 306. Exod. xxv. 38, Vm 36; kerta-pípa í staf ok klofi, Pm. 103; kerta-klofi, q. v.; horn-klofi, q. v.COMPDS: klofakerling, klofarúm, klofasigling, klofastef.
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