rift

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RIFT, noun [from rive.] A cleft; a fissure; an opening made by riving or splitting. RIFT, verb transitive to cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock. RIFT, verb intransitive 1. to burst open; to split. Timber - not apt to rift with ordnance. 2. to belch; to break wind. [Local.]
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