by a seam giving way a tear a place torn laceration. Compare rifle.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun An implement for sharpening a scythe.noun A little wave a ripple especially, in the plural, ripples or waves formed over a bar or ledge, as when the wind and tide are opposed.noun A worthless or vicious animal, as a horse or a mule.noun A vicious, reckless, and worthless person a “bad lot”: applied to a man or woman of vicious practices or propensities, and more or less worn by dissipation.To utter with sudden violence give vent to, as an oath: with out.To break forth with violence explode: with out.noun A wicker basket in which to carry fish.noun A rent made by ripping or tearing a laceration the place so ripped.To rush or drive headlong or with violence.To be torn or split open open or part: as, a seam rips by the breaking or drawing out of the threads the ripping of a boiler at the seams.To saw (wood) in the direction of the grain.Figuratively, to open or reopen for search or disclosure lay bare search out and disclose: usually with up.To drag or force out or away, as by cutting or rending.To separate or divide the parts of by cutting or tearing tear or cut open or off split: as, to rip open a sack to rip off the shingles of a roof to rip up the belly especially, to undo (a seam, as of a garment), either by cutting the threads of it or by pulling the two pieces of material apart, so that the sewing-thread is drawn out or broken.noun A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.idiom ( let it /'er) To allow something to start or happen with vigor or energy.noun A torn or split place, especially along a seam.intransitive verb Informal To move quickly or violently.intransitive verb To become torn or split apart.intransitive verb Vulgar Slang To expel (a discharge of intestinal gas).intransitive verb Informal To produce, display, or utter suddenly.intransitive verb To subject to vehement criticism or attack.
intransitive verb Computers To copy (audio or audio-visual material from) a CD or DVD.intransitive verb To split or saw (wood) along the grain.intransitive verb To cause to be pulled apart, as by an accident.intransitive verb To cut, tear apart, or tear away roughly or energetically.
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.