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Webster 1913 Edition

Crevasse

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Creˊvasse′

(kr?ˊv?s′)
,
Noun.
[F. See
Crevice
.]
1.
A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
2.
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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