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crev⋅ice

   [krev-is]
–noun
a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.
Origin:
1300–50; ME crevace < AF, OF, equiv. to crev(er) to crack (< L crepāre) + -ace n. suffix
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crev·ice     (krěv'ĭs)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.

[Middle English, from Old French crevace, probably from Vulgar Latin *crepācia, from *crepa, from Latin crepāre, to crack.]
crev'iced adj.
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Creviced

Crev"iced\ (-?st), a. Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.

Trickling through the creviced rock. --J. Cunningham.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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