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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Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Shriving :: Shriving (n.) Shrift; confession.
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Sea Pink :: Sea pink () See Thrift.
Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
Dingthrift :: Dingthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..
Rift :: Rift (n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
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