mud crack

noun

, Geology.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mud crack¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

It was but the work of a few moments to raise the body of Long Bill to the bench by means of a rope, carry it to a nearby mud crack, drop it in and cave a ton of mud onto it.

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She's right now layin' tied an' gagged in a mud crack where you nor no one else won't never find her.

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"Be hell if she was dead," he growled, "be just my luck—but if she is, I'll cache her in a mud crack somewheres an' maybe her friends from acrost will stick up a reward, an' I'll make Cinnabar Joe or Long Bill go an' collect it an' fork it over."

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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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