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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)

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