Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rift

Rift , past participle

past participle of Rive. [obsolete] — Spenser

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. — Wordsworth

Rift , intransitive verb

1.
To burst open; to split. — Shakespeare
Timber... not apt to rif with ordnance. — Bacon
2.
To belch. [Provincial English & Scottish]