Crevice

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  • noun. A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; a narrow opening of some length, as between two parts of a solid surface, or between two adjoining surfaces: as, a crevice in a wall, rock, etc.
  • noun. Specifically, in lead-mining, in the Mississippi valley, a fissure in which the ore of lead occurs.
  • To make crevices in; crack; flaw.
  • To channel; ornament with crevices.
  • noun. An obsolete form of crawfish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
  • transitive verb. To crack; to flaw.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A narrow crack or fissure, in a rock or wall.
  • verb. To crack; to flaw.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a long narrow depression in a surface
  • noun. a long narrow opening
  • Word Usage
    "The passage, which Captain Glass had called a crevice, twisted into this reef, curved directly to the north heel, and ran along the base of the perpendicular rock."
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    boulder  cave  chasm  chink  cleave  
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    abysm  abyss  arroyo  box canyon  breach