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Definition of Crevasse

Crevasse
Crevasse Cre`vasse" (kr?`v?s"), n. [F. See Crevice.] 1. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. 2. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]

Meaning of Crevasse from wikipedia

- A crev****e is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Crev****es form as a result of the movement and resulting stress ****ociated with the shear...
- "Into the Crev****e" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 60th overall episode of the series...
- Aspects of crev****e rescue Crev****e rescue (or crev****e-extraction) is a set of techniques in mountaineering where climbers use their equipment to pull...
- A crev****e splay is a sedimentary fluvial deposit which forms when a stream breaks its natural or artificial levees and deposits sediment on a floodplain...
- second-highest mountain in the world, after a team of climbers are trapped in a crev****e. The film was the third collaboration between Campbell and actor Stuart...
- and compacted soils with a high percentage of fine-grained material. A crev****e, also called an ice fissure, is a deep linear crack in an ice sheet or...
- La Crev****e is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, overlooking Sembrancher in the canton of Valais. It lies just east of the Col des Planches. The mountain...
- (ladders) at the crev****e. As of the 2016 fall climbing season, a 5-metre high fixed aluminum ladder is being used to cross the crev****e. Imja Glacier Imja...
- m****ive transverse blocks that calve off the upper glacier, creating gaping crev****es (of over 100 m deep and often over 15 metres or 50 feet wide). As these...
- the large crev****e immediately underneath. Yates realized the situation that Simpson had been in and that he must have fallen into the crev****e when the...