different between reft vs refi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Verb

reft

1. simple past tense and past participle of reave

Noun

reft (plural refts)

1. A chink; a rift.
   • 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, The Life and Letters of Faraday, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., Vol. II, Chapter II, p. 146, [1]

     At one time the summit was beautifully bathed in golden light, whilst the middle part was quite blue, and the snow of its peculiar blue-green colour in the refts. Some of the glaciers are very distinct to us, and with the telescope I can see the refts and corrugations of the different parts, and the edges from which avalanches have fallen […]

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VII, [2]

     Now and again through a reft in the smoke a gleam of sunshine could be seen striking the rocks on the great peak to the west, but it had little or no effect in the gorge.

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Anagrams

• FRET, TERF, fret, terf, tref

English

Noun

refi (uncountable)

1. (finance) Abbreviation of refinancing.

Anagrams

• -fier, FIRE, Fier, Frie, fier, fire, reif, rief, rife

Icelandic

Noun

refi

1. indefinite accusative plural of refur

Italian

Noun

refi m

1. plural of refe

Anagrams

• ferì