Fiveth vs Riveth - What's the difference?
fiveth | riveth |
(obsolete) Fifth.
* 1608
(rive)
To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
* :
(label) To break apart; to split.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
* (1665-1728)
In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
As an adjective fiveth
is (obsolete) fifth.As a verb riveth is
(rive).fiveth
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Adjective
(head)The Account Books of the Parish of St. Bartholomew Exchange in the City of London, p. 35.
- And if any afternoone Lecture doe fall out to be on any fiveth daye of November then I doe appoint the the tenne shillinges...
riveth
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Verb
(head)rive
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Verb
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
- 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 h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
- The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
- Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.
