Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
- (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
- (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
- In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
Substantiv
- A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Exempel
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[...]
- And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hād but[...]sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
- The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue.
- Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
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