Rive

Rivename

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  A surname from French.

riveverb詞源 1/ɹaɪv/

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  To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.

  • I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[…]
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  archaicTo pierce or cleave with a weapon.

  • 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
  • And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
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  To break apart; to split.

  • The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue[…].
  • Freestone i.e. that rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
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  rareTo burst open; explode; discharge.

  • Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
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  artsbusinesscarpentryTo use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

rivenoun詞源 1/ɹaɪv/

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  A place torn; a rent; a rift.

rivenoun詞源 2/ɹaɪv/

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  A bank or shore.

riveverb詞源 2/ɹaɪv/

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  To land.