reft
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
reft
- simple past and past participle of reave
Noun[edit]
reft (plural refts)
- A chink; a rift.
- c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:
- If thou mayest finde any shore,
Or hole , or reft , what ever it were- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, chapter II, in The Life and Letters of Faraday[1], volume II, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., page 146:
- At one time the summit was beautifully bathed in golden light, whilst the middle part was quite blue, and the snow of its peculiar blue-green colour in the refts. Some of the glaciers are very distinct to us, and with the telescope I can see the refts and corrugations of the different parts, and the edges from which avalanches have fallen […]
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VII, [2]
- Now and again through a reft in the smoke a gleam of sunshine could be seen striking the rocks on the great peak to the west, but it had little or no effect in the gorge.
References[edit]
“reft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.