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Hole :: Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure..

Crack :: Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass..

Parting :: Parting (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam..

Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..

Suleah Fish :: Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.

Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

Elephantiasis :: Elephantiasis (n.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide..

Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.

Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..

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

Fluework :: Fluework (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..

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