Definition of rift

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Rift (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds..

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Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..
Thriftily :: Thriftily (adv.) Carefully; properly; becomingly.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..
Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..
Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..
Dune :: Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
Thrift :: Thrift (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
Unthriftily :: Unthriftily (adv.) Not thriftily.
Unthriftfully :: Unthriftfully (adv.) Not thriftily.
Scope :: Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
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