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▪ I. crevice, n.|ˈkrɛvɪs|
Forms: 4 crevace, -yce, 4–5 creveys, (creu-), cravas(e, (crau-), 4–6 creves, (creu-), 4–7 crevesse, (creu-), 5 creveis, creuys, crayues, (cref(f)eys, crefes), 5–6 craues, 6 crevisse, craivesse, 5–7 creuice, 6–7 creuis, (crev-), 7 creuas, crevasse, creuise, 7–8 crevise, 8 crivess, 5– crevice.
[ME. crevace, a. OF. crevace, mod.F. crevasse:—late L. crepātia, f. L. crepāre to creak, rattle, crack: cf. creve. Already in the 14th c. the stress began to be shifted to the first syllable, and the unaccented second syllable to be weakened to -esse, -isse, -ice. The mod.F. form has been re-adopted in crevasse n.]
1. A crack producing an opening in the surface or through the thickness of anything solid; a cleft, rift, chink, fissure.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2183 A creuisse of an olde cragge. 1382Wyclif Nehem. iv. 7 The chinys or cravasis begunnen to be closid. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 2086 Hyt gan out crepe at somme crevace. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 134 If þe creveis [MS. B. creffeys] perse not þe brayn scolle. 1552Huloet, Craues or creues. Vide in chyncke. 1562Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 167 b, With a barcke gapynge and havinge crevisses. 1592W. Perkins Case Consc. (1619) 202 Hee sees but one little beame of the Sunne, by a small creuise. a1628Preston New Covt. (1634) 77 There was but a little crevis opened. 1678tr. Gaya's Arms War 73 Care must be had that there be no Cracks, Flaws, Crevasses, nor Honey Combs in her Cylender. 1712Steele Spect. No. 266 ⁋4 To peep at a Crevise, and look in at People. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 286 In winter it lies hid in the crevices of walls. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xx. 335 Water..percolating freely through the crevices..to all depths of the glacier.
b. spec. in Mining. A fissure in which a deposit of ore or metal is found. Also attrib.
1872Raymond Statist. Mines 262 The crevice is filled with a mixture of carbonate of lead and bunches of undecomposed galena. 1870R. J. Atcherley Boërland 175 Gold..known as ‘crevice gold’, from..being picked out of crevices in the bed-rock.
c. Rarely = crevasse n., in a glacier.
1852Alb. Smith in Blackw. Mag. LXXI. 53 Tairraz, who preceded me, had jumped over a crevice.
†2. A deep furrow or channel. Obs. Cf. creviced.
(Quot. 1609 is doubtful).
1580Baret Alv. C 1610 Leaues, wherein Creuises, or smal lines are seene..folia striata. 1609W. M. Man in Moone (1849) 18 Pish, your band hangeth right enought, what, yet more crevises in your stockings?
▪ II. † ˈcrevice, v.
[f. prec., or ad. F. crevasser: see crevasse v.]
trans. To make crevices in; to fissure, crack, split. Obs. exc. in pa. pple. creviced.
1624Wotton Elem. Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 20 They [the stones] are more apt..to pierce with their points..and so to crevice the Wall.
▪ III. crevice
obs. form of crayfish n. |