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Rift   /rɪft/   Listen
noun
Rift  n.  (Written also reft)  
1.
An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
2.
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.


verb
Rift  v. t.  (past & past part. rifted; pres. part. rifting)  To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. "To dwell these rifted rocks between."


Rift  v. i.  
1.
To burst open; to split. "Timber... not apt to rif with ordnance."
2.
To belch. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)


Rift  v.  obs. P. p. of Rive.





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"Rift" Quotes from Famous Books



... activity itself, and they slashed and trampled down and hauled and lowered till the whole party found themselves upon a broad stony shelf at the very edge of a sharply-cut rift, whose sides showed that it must have been split from the opposite side by some convulsion of Nature, so exactly was ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... Tempered like golden evening, feebly fell; 355 A green and glowing light, like that which drops From folded lilies in which glow-worms dwell, When Earth over her face Night's mantle wraps; Between the severed mountains lay on high, Over the stream, a narrow rift of sky. 360 ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... running below the drawing-room and dining-room windows, led down on one side to the woods, on the other to Lady Channice's garden, and was a favourite place of theirs for quiet saunterings. Today the sunlight fell mildly on it. A rift of pale blue showed in the still ...
— Amabel Channice • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... It could not have rolled there, on account of its shape, nor could it have fallen from the bed, because the pillow was closely joined to the head of the bed, round which ran a raised edge with no rift therein. Cardan concludes: "I know that much may be said over this matter, but nothing, forsooth, which will convince a man, ever so little inclined to superstition, that there was no boding sign manifested thereby, foretelling the ruin of my position and good name. Then, having ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... territorial dispute with Somalia over the Ogaden Climate: tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation; some areas prone to extended droughts Terrain: high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley Natural resources: small reserves of gold, platinum, copper, potash Land use: arable land: 12% permanent crops: 1% meadows and pastures: 41% forest and woodland: 24% other: 22% Irrigated land: ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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