Reive vs Rive - What's the difference?
reive | rive |
* 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford'', quoted in ''Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:
* 2011 , Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description (ISBN 1849654263), page 102:
* 2014 , Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound (ISBN 1139916262):
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 verbs the difference between reive and rive
is that reive is while rive is .reive
English
Verb
- [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
- Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.
- So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving , most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.
rive
English
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.