Rip

Rip , noun

[Compare Icelandic hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to English corb. Compare Ripier.]

A wicker fish basket.

Rip , transitive verb

[Compare Anglo-Saxon rȳpan, also Swedish repa to ripple flax, Dutch repelen, German reffen, riffeln, and English raff, raffle. Compare Raff, Ripple of flax.]

To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. — Granville

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.

They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. — Clarendon

For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy... is neither wise nor comely. — Milton

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

Collocations (4)

Ripping chisel (Carpentry) , a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. — Knight

Ripping iron (Shipbuilding) , Same as Ravehook.

Ripping saw (Carpentry) , See Ripsaw.

To rip out , to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloquial]

Rip , noun

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [Slang.]

A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.