Rive may refer to:
- Rive, Piedmont, a town in Piedmont, Italy
- Rive d'Arcano, a town in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- to tearing or rendering something apart, separating by striking, splitting or cleaving.
- to rend, harrow, or distress emotionally
- A woodworking technique of splitting wood radially from a log
- from French rive meaning "riverbank": the parts of Paris north and south of the River Seine, see Rive droite and Rive gauche
Famous quotes containing the word rive:
“Blunt wedges rive hard knots.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“He looked as if he wished to rive new war material out of the wombs of the mothers.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Ellen Key, War, Peace and the Future, ch. 9 (1916)