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'sack' - to annex (a city)
Sack means 'to pillage (a city)'. Unlike hew, they are two different words with different etymologies, which happen to be homonyms.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Your first post did not say that it had to be a three-letter word. This from clarences Second post: Hint: the third word has three letters. I know that which is why I said "your first post did not say that it had to be a three-letter word". He changed the rules after my guess.
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The first post asked for two other words besides cleave that had the same opposite meanings (i.e., to separate and to adhere) without specifying how many letters they have. Then I revealed CLIP as the second such word, and then gave a HINT that the third word I had in mind had three letters. Who knows, there may be others of unspecified length that also have these same opposite meanings.
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Ta-tra-ra-la-ta-dah! (Rousing fanfare)
The three letter word meaning both separate and adhere is HEW.
To hew branches from a tree.
To hew to the tenets of your political party. I still reckon TUP fits too.
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I still reckon TUP fits too.
I guess it would, for anyone who had too intimate a knowledge of sheep.
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I still reckon TUP fits too.
I guess it would, for anyone who had too intimate a knowledge of sheep. 
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Just thought you'd get in before I mentioned you, didn't you olly? 
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FTR, the fertilization involved in faldage is fertilization of the soil by means of the of the sheep's manure.
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Just thought you'd get in before I mentioned you, didn't you olly? know it. Us kiwis like to Shear! Thought I'd ram the point home. I wouldn't want to pull the wool. 
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Just thought you'd get in before I mentioned you, didn't you olly? know it. Us kiwis like to Shear! Thought I'd ram the point home. I wouldn't want to pull the wool. All I can say to that is baaaah!
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