Verb

To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks

To pierce or cleave with a weapon.

* :

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

(label) To break apart; to split.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:

The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .

* (1665-1728)

Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.

In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

Verb

(head)

* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation

, passage=XIX Thus long the dore with rage and threats he bet, Yet of those fearfull women none durst rize , The Lyon frayed them, him in to let: 165 He would no longer stay him to advize,[*] But open breakes the dore in furious wize, And entring is; when that disdainfull beast Encountring fierce, him suddaine doth surprize, And seizing cruell clawes on trembling brest, 170 Under his Lordly foot him proudly hath supprest. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Max Pemberton, title=The Iron Pirate, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Go on, lay me right here as I lay now; but I'll rize agen you, and the day'll come when you'd give every dollar ye're worth to dig me up, and give me life agen." }}