[syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Crevice \Crev"ice\, v. t.
To crack; to flaw. [R.] --Sir H. Wotton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Crevice \Crev"ice\ (kr?v"?s), 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.
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The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about. --Tennyson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
crevice
n 1: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice,
cranny, crack, fissure, chap]
2: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice,
fissure, scissure]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wadi