A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
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(US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
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(by extension) Any cleft or fissure.
: he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
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