2. (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
3. (n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
4. (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
5. (v. i.) To burst open; to split.
6. (v. i.) To belch.
