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mud crack

American  

noun

Geology.
  1. a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.


Etymology

Origin of mud crack

First recorded in 1890–95


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Who can calculate the future of the smallest trifle when a mud crack swells to an Amazon and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold?

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The coulees run hell-west an' crossways at their littlest end an' wind up in a mud crack.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Who can calculate the future of the smallest trifle when a mud crack swells to an Amazon, and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold?

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden

Go up it till you come to a brush corral, there's two horses in there, an' a saddle an' bridle is cached in a mud crack on the west side.

From Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

The girl saw that they were in a cavern formed by a mud crack whose walls had toppled together.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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