rive vs scissor

rive

verb
  • To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. 

  • To land. 

  • To burst open; explode; discharge. 

  • To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards). 

  • To break apart; to split. 

noun
  • A place torn; a rent; a rift. 

  • A bank or shore. 

scissor

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

How often have the words rive and scissor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )