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Webster 1913 Edition


Crevice

Crev′ice

(kr?v′?s)
,
Noun.
[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.

Crev′ice

,
Verb.
T.
To crack; to flaw.
[R.]
Sir H. Wotton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Crevice

CREVICE

,
Noun.
[L., to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.] A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall.

CREVICE

,
Verb.
T.
To crack; to flaw.

Definition 2024


crevice

crevice

See also: crevasse

English

Noun

crevice (plural crevices)

  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
    • Tennyson
      The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
    • William Butler Yeats
      I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and [] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

Translations

Verb

crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)

  1. To crack; to flaw.
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Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *krebitja (crayfish), diminutive of Old Frankish *krebit (crab), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (crab, cancer), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerebʰ- (to scratch, crawl). Akin to Old High German krebiz ("edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs (crab)), Middle Low German krēvet (crab), Dutch kreeft (crayfish, lobster), Old English crabba (crab).

Noun

crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)

  1. crayfish, crawfish