RIVE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak.

2.
v.

To be split or rent asunder. Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction. Woodward.

3.
n.

A place torn; a rent; a rift. [Prov. Eng.]

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