Defn: To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.
RIFT
Rift, v. i.
1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.
2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
RIFTER
Rift"er, n.
Defn: A rafter. [Obs.] Holland.
RIG
Rig, n. Etym: [See Ridge.]
Defn: A ridge. [Prov. or Scott.]
RIG
Rig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Rigging.] Etym:
[Norweg. rigga to bind, particularly, to wrap round, rig; cf. AS.
wrihan to cover.]
1. To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.