rifa

slit

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I)

f. rent, rift, chink, fissure.

II)

(að), v. to sew up loosely (Styrr var rifaðr í hóð).

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1.

u, f. [Scot. rive], a rift, rent, cleft, fissure, Sks. 210, freq. in mod. usage; bjarg-rifa, kletta-rifa, also a rift in a wall between two planks.

2.

að, [Scot. riv; Engl. rivet], to tack together, sew loosely together; Styrr var rifaðr í húð, Ísl. ii. 296, Glúm. 382 (of a corpse); hann varð djöfulóðr ok var rifaðr í húð innan, Orkn. 202 (of a madman).

2. rifa saman, to stitch together; hann vill rifa saman munninn, rifaði (Ob., rifjaði Kb. wrongly) hann saman varrarnar ok reif ór æsunum, Edda i. 346.