Reve vs Rive - What's the difference?
reve | rive |
(local official).
* 14thC', , ''Prologue to the '''Reves Tale'', 1915, ''The College Chaucer ,
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 reve and rive
is that reve is (pt-verb-form-of) while rive is .reve
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Piers Plowman)
page 94,
- Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve ;
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.