Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. Specifically, in lead-mining, in the Mississippi valley, a fissure in which the ore of lead occurs. Synonyms Chink, interstice, cranny.
- To make crevices in; crack; flaw.
- To channel; ornament with crevices.
- n. An obsolete form of crawfish.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
- v. rare To crack; to flaw.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a long narrow depression in a surface
- n. a long narrow opening
Etymologies
- From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever ("to break, burst"), from Latin crepare ("to break, burst, crack"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French crevace, probably from Vulgar Latin *crepācia, from *crepa, from Latin crepāre, to crack. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They are our people," he tells me, "people called the crevice people, the bat people.”
“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 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.”
“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
“The Salto (or Leap) is a crevice, which is crossed by a draw-bridge.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It always amazes me people who want to be "crevice" docs??”
“The blessed light of day itself peeps in, an ugly phantom face, through the unchangeable crevice which is his prison window.”
“The central issue in my opininion is that M15 did not maintain surveillance on the two 7/7suspects even when they had been in contact with the "crevice" suspects This can only be due to lack of resource in M15 or shortage of suitably trained surveillance personnel.”
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bilby
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. Sep 30, 2008
sionnach 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. Nov 15, 2007
kalli As in a sausage crevice. Nov 15, 2007