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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rive  \Rive\,  v.  t.  [imp.  {Rived};  p.  p.  {Rived}  or  {Riven};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Riving}.]  [Icel.  r[=i]fa,  akin  to  Sw  rifva  to 
  pull  asunder,  burst,  tear,  Dan.  rive  to  rake,  pluck,  tear. 
  Cf  {Reef}  of  land,  {Rifle}  a  gun,  {Rift},  {Rivel}.] 
  To  rend  asunder  by  force;  to  split;  to  cleave;  as  to  rive 
  timber  for  rails  or  shingles. 
 
  I  shall  ryve  him  through  the  sides  twain.  --Chaucer. 
 
  The  scolding  winds  have  rived  the  knotty  oaks.  --Shak. 
 
  Brutus  hath  rived  my  heart.  --Shak.




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