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Webster 1913 Edition

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(kr?ˊv?s′)

Noun.

[F. See

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

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

[U.S.]

See also: crevasse and crevice

crévasse f ‎(plural crévasses)