CREVASSE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

2.
n.

A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]


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