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crevice
CIDE DICTIONARY
crevice, n. [OE. crevace, crevice. F. crevasse, fr. crever to break, burst, fr. L. crepare to crack,break. Cf. Craven, Crepitate, Crevasse.].
A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. [1913 Webster]
"The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about." [1913 Webster]
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about." [1913 Webster]
crevice, v. t.
To crack; to flaw. Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
crevice, n. a narrow opening or fissure, esp. in a rock or building etc.
Etymology
ME f. OF crevace f. crever burst f. L crepare
THESAURUS
crevice
abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadiROGET THESAURUS
crevice
Interval
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.For further exploring for "crevice" in Webster Dictionary Online
