crevasse

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I do not believe that five men on the lid of a crevasse are as safe as four.

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  1. noun A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm.
  2. noun A crack or breach in a dike or levee.
  3. intransitive and transitive verb To develop or cause to develop crevasses.

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  • Throwing them down the crevasse is not good enough; they have too much metal and would be too easy to find in the ice, I think, though it might delay their recovery. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • The only way a man could get in the ice like that was if he'd fallen into a crevasse, then was covered by water that froze with almost perfect clarity. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
  • Bink peered down into the crevasse, and spied the crack in its base where the tree's big root crossed. —  The Source of Magic
  • I came back into the crevasse, and descended, and tried to reach my people. —  083 - The Other World
  • The weight of the two who had first leaped must have cracked a portion of the edge of the crevasse--a part rotten from long exposure to the sun, rain and frost. —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
 

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  1. French, from Old French crevace, crevice; see crevice.

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  1. French: see crevice.
 

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/krɛˈvæs/
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