Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from 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 rare To crack; to flaw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
narrow crack orfissure , in arock orwall . - verb To
crack ; toflaw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long narrow depression in a surface
- noun a long narrow opening
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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"They are our people," he tells me, "people called the crevice people, the bat people."
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The ground squirrel that called the crevice his home came shooting out of his burrow, tail high and stiff, bounding with rage, to chitter angrily at her.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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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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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.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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Mammoth Cave, was not visited, as the entrance is described as a crevice through which a man has difficulty in squeezing his way, while the interior is nowhere more than 8 feet wide.
Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894
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The Salto (or Leap) is a crevice, which is crossed by a draw-bridge.
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The Salto (or Leap) is a crevice, which is crossed by a draw-bridge.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It has a nice little storage place right on my dashboard (also known as a crevice) and it stays right there until I need it and goes right back there when I am done with it or I get out of the car.
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So that kind of crevice at the end of a mattress, where the ticking is that what it's called that raised thing at the edge of a mattress, they apparently love to live in that crevice there.
kalli commented on the word crevice
As in a sausage crevice.
November 15, 2007
sionnach commented on the word crevice
The Eskimoes have long been expert in using Nature's bounty to improve the quality of their everyday life, for instance, how to fashion long-term food storage areas from their natural surroundings. Sadly, the use of such storage options, like the famous sausage crevasses of the Inuit, is now threatened by the environmental catastrophe that is global warming.
November 15, 2007
bilby commented on the word crevice
From a sacred crevice in your body
A bow rises each night
And shoots your soul into God.
- Hafiz, 'Light Will Someday Split You Open', translation by Daniel Ladinsky.
September 30, 2008