Crevasse
- n. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
- n. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.