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Crevasse   Listen
noun
Crevasse  n.  
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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"Crevasse" Quotes from Famous Books



... such theistic principles all sin must be simply defect, and all defect must be absolutely fatuitous.' Eclecticism was a beautiful but frail levee, opposed to the swollen tide of skepticism, and, as in every other crevasse when swept away, it only caused the stream ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans


Words linked to "Crevasse" :   cleft, crack, fissure, crevice


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