Associations to the word «Rives»

Wiktionary

RIVE, verb. (transitive) (archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
RIVE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
RIVE, verb. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
RIVE, verb. (transitive) (rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
RIVE, verb. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
RIVE, noun. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Dictionary definition

RIVE, verb. Tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips".
RIVE, verb. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats