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.
To drag or force out or away, as by cutting or rending.
Figuratively, to open or reopen for search or disclosure; lay bare; search out and disclose: usually with up. See ripe.
To saw (wood) in the direction of the grain. See rip-saw.
To rob; pillage; plunder.
Synonyms Tear, Cleave, etc. See rend.
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 rush or drive headlong or with violence. [Colloq.]
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A rent made by ripping or tearing; a laceration; the place so ripped.
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A rip-saw.
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A wicker basket in which to carry fish.
To break forth with violence; explode: with out.
To utter with sudden violence; give vent to, as an oath: with out.
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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.
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A worthless or vicious animal, as a horse or a mule.
A dialectal form of reap. Halliwell.
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A handful of grain not thrashed.
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A ridge of water; a rapid.
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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.
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An implement for sharpening a scythe. Compare rifle.