Bible Dictionaries
Crevasse

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.

(2):

(n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Crevasse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/crevasse.html. 1828.