1. crevasse - Noun
2. crevasse - Verb
A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse. Ranulph Fiennes
Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask? Cate Tiernan
Eugene finds Claire curled up in a rock crevasse glued to her screen and takes her back to the village, driving her into painful withdrawal when he refuses to replace the batteries for her screen. Source: Internet
But as I was raised, I was being pulled to the left side of the crevasse away from the glass wall, so I spun around to the left and found a narrow, sloping, stepped ledge. Source: Internet
I am going to work my ass off, keep flapping my feathers in every crevasse that opens beneath me, and that's life. Source: Internet
Surprised to see it opened a crack, she put her face to the crevasse between the door and the frame and looked out into the dark forest as rain pelted the trees. Source: Internet