3 entries under this word

Rift

Rĭft, n.

noun

n. [Written also reft.] [Dan. rift, from rive, to rend, Eng. rive, q. v.]

An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
A shallow place in a stream; a fording-place.

Rĭft, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. RIFTED; p. pr. & vb. n. RIFTING.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock. “To dwell these rifted rocks between.” Wordsworth.

Rĭft, v. i.

verbintransitive

To burst open; to split. “Timber . . . not apt to rift with ordnance.” Bacon.
To belch; to break wind. [Prov. Eng.]