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plural crevices
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall. quotations examples
[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, stanza VI, page 13
I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
(slang) The vagina. quotations
[…] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice.
2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130
third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced
To crack; to flaw. quotations examples
they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […] crevice the Wall
1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill