CREVASSE
\kɹəvˈas], \kɹəvˈas], \k_ɹ_ə_v_ˈa_s]\
Definitions of CREVASSE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
Sort: Oldest first
-
A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
-
(F.) Rima, from crever, to break or crack. A crack, a cleft. The word crevasse, gercure, fissure, and rhagade are often used synonymously for small longitudinal cracks of chaps of a more or less painful character. Sometimes, crevasseis employed to designate the solutions of continuity or ruptures, which supervene in distended parts, in the urinary passages, uterus, &c.: it is then synonymous with rupture.
By Robley Dunglison