Rift
Rift , past participle
Rift , noun
[Danish rift, from rieve to rend. See Rive.]
1.
An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. — Spenser
2.
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Rift , transitive verb
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.
Rift , intransitive verb
1.
To burst open; to split. — Shakespeare
Timber... not apt to rif with ordnance.
2.
To belch. [Provincial English & Scottish]