The narrator was likely using what was known as a dark-lantern, which was an entirely closed metal lantern with a trap-door. The crevice was a small opening for a ray of light to escape when the trap-door was slightly ajar.
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"When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little --a very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it --you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily --until, at length a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye."
The prefix of the word "crevice" is "cre-". A prefix is a group of letters attached to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning. In this case, "cre-" is derived from the Latin word "crepare" meaning "to crack or split," which is related to the meaning of "crevice" as a narrow opening or crack in something.
Crevice, fissure
(A crevice is a narrow crack, fault, or opening in a surface, as in a floor, wall, or other structure.) At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, he left a small paper message in a crevice between the stones. As the wind threatened to blow him off the mountain, he found a small crevice and braced himself.
as in a noun, it could also be crevice
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A crevice is a narrow crack or opening, a fissure or cleft.
Another word for crevice is crack.
The prefix of the word "crevice" is "cre-". A prefix is a group of letters attached to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning. In this case, "cre-" is derived from the Latin word "crepare" meaning "to crack or split," which is related to the meaning of "crevice" as a narrow opening or crack in something.
The word crevice is a concrete noun, a word for something that can be seen or touched (or get your finger stuck in).
There was a crevice in the cliff face wide enough for a man to take shelter in. Any small crevice in the floor can accumulate dust.
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There are two syllables. Crev-ice.
Crevice, fissure
The word you are looking for is "crevice".
There was a small crevice in the stone walkway, and occasionally seedlings would sprout from it.(A crevice is a narrow crack or opening, not to be confused with the larger crevasse, which is a large chasm, split, or fissure in an ice sheet or glacier.)
(A crevice is a narrow crack, fault, or opening in a surface, as in a floor, wall, or other structure.) At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, he left a small paper message in a crevice between the stones. As the wind threatened to blow him off the mountain, he found a small crevice and braced himself.
as in a noun, it could also be crevice