mud crack

American

noun

Geology.

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

Example Sentences

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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.

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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?

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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?

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

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

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