'Rifting' definitions:
Definition of 'Rifting'
From: GCIDE
- Rift \Rift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- To dwell these rifted rocks between. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]