RIFT

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

p. p. of Rive. Spenser.

2.
n.

An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.

3.
n.

A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

4.
v.

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.

5.
v.

To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.

6.
v.

To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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