What does "rift" mean?
Rift: An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- 3.To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.
- 4.To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.
- 5.To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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