"reft" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹɛft/ Forms: refts [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛft Head templates: {{en-noun}} reft (plural refts)
  1. A chink; a rift.
    Sense id: en-reft-en-noun-KARnl4KR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 13

Verb

IPA: /ɹɛft/
Rhymes: -ɛft Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} reft
  1. simple past and past participle of reave Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: reave
    Sense id: en-reft-en-verb-WQT14sgn

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "If thou mayest finde any shore,\nOr hole , or reft , what ever it were",
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          "ref": "1870, Dr. Bence Jones, chapter II, in The Life and Letters of Faraday, volume II, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., page 146:",
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          "text": "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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt\nNow 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."
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