| Rip (rip) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Rip |
| [Cf. Icel. hrip a box
or basket; perhaps akin to E. corb. Cf. Ripier.] |
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To divide or separate the parts of, by
cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by
violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to
rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; --
commonly used with up, open, off.
To get by, or as by, cutting or
tearing.
To tear up for search or disclosure, or for
alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; --
usually with up.
To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or
fiber.
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A rent
made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn;
laceration.
A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or
person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out
horse.
A body of water made rough by the meeting
of opposing tides or currents.
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