rifty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rifty (comparative more rifty, superlative most rifty)
- Full of rifts or fissures.
- 1862, United States. Court of Claims, Reports from the Court of Claims, page 597:
- If the stone is very rifty the axe will work best on the quarry bed; because in the axe working on the quarry face, where the stone is solid, it will show a smooth service, but in the rifty places it will show roughness and the defect in the stone.