Verb

(en verb)

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.

*, chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

To go somewhere with ease.

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*:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?!  You?!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

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).