Crossword clues for crevice
crevice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crevice \Crev"ice\, v. t.
To crack; to flaw. [R.]
--Sir H. Wotton.
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.
The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak" (see raven); meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall. vb. To crack; to flaw. Etymology 2
n. crayfish, crawfish
WordNet
Wikipedia
A crevice is a fracture or fissure in rock.
Crevice may also refer to:
- Crevice corrosion, occurs in spaces to which the access of corrosion-resistant fluid is limited
- Crevice kelpfish (Gibbonsia montereyensis), a species of subtropical clinid
- Crevice Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii), a small, typically shy, phrynosomadtid lizard
- Crevice weaver (family Filistatidae), a haplogyne spider that weaves funnel or tube webs
Usage examples of "crevice".
It provided that we should exist in aeonic time, between the crevices of the ticking clock and above the clicking register of creations.
Perhaps a burial site or a prized Anasazi weapon hidden in some crevice.
Abu Batn was the first to find it-the narrow crevice with the flight of concrete steps leading upward.
Tiny rills of water, drainage from the tundra banks above the beachline, flowed down the shallow crevices of the clayey, hard substance.
Not really comfortable, especially the way my nuts kept winding up in the crevice the Chukhamagh made for their beavertails, but good enough.
The jagged sandstone wall was pockmarked with dark holes of caves and streaked with narrow cracks and crevices.
At the great chockstone, which called for delicate climbing, there was a bad moment when it caught in a crevice overhead.
Its face was pockmarked with craters and chasms, crisscrossed with hundreds of crevices.
The front edge was uneven, accommodating minor local differences in terrain, and a climb to the top would have revealed dips and ridges, seracs, and crevices quite extensive on a human scale, but in relation to its own size, the surface was uniformly level.
It ploughed its way across Ontario, and the skeleton of our Favosites was rooted out from the quiet place where it had lain so long, and was caught up in a crevice of the ice.
Kerrigan had lain on the edge of Mesa Gallina, fifteen miles away, smoking cigarettes and watching the crevices of the uprearing Cimarrons.
Khouri curl into a nearly invisible ball, and roused the hags drowsing in the crevices of his throne, snapping the guards around the perimeter of the Hall to attention.
He even says that all the village knew of my journeys to the tomb, and that I was often watched as I slept in the bower outside the grim facade, my half-open eyes fixed on the crevice that leads to the interior.
The mists receded behind her, and she found herself standing in the rain in an alleyway that ran like a deep crevice between two towering buildings.
As it was, we had to shelter as best we could under rock overhangs and in crevices to escape the nightlong falls of hot ash from the volcano and windborne embers from the fires.