regional and literary. Torn, rent; split, cloven; cracked.

Broken, cracked; flawed, damaged. Obsolete.

Broken without separation of parts, fractured; partially broken so as to be no longer sound.

Having rifts; full of rifts.

slived silk, see sleaved adj. at sleave, v. derivatives.

Chiefly literary and poetic. Split, rent; riven. Also figurative. Now rare.

= crazed, adj.; broken, shattered.

Of a mast or other wooden object: cracked, split.

Split with a rift or rifts; cleft.

riven asunder, cloven.

In senses of the verb. of material things.

Characterized by, or full of, chinks.

Split.

sliven silk, see sleaved adj. at sleave, v. derivatives.

Having cracks or fractures; prone to crack.

Split, cleft.