Rift /(?)/

Rift

p. p.
  1. p. p. of Rive. obs.

Rift

n.
  1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
  2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Rift

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting

  1. 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.]