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:
“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)
“Blunt wedges rive hard knots.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)