OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32698

rift

/ɹɪft/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cisma • fisura
A chasm or fissure.
The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
Where ashes are heaped in drifts / Over vineyard and field and town, / Whenever he starts and lifts / His head through the blackened rifts / Of the crags that keep him down
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