All 4 Uses of
chasm
in
Dune
- The Duke glanced down to the left at the broken landscape of the Shield Wall—chasms of tortured rock, patches of yellow-brown crossed by black lines of fault shattering.†
Book 1
- His entire future was becoming like a river hurtling toward a chasm — the violent nexus beyond which all was fog and clouds.†
Book 3 *
- She knew she was trying to keep her thoughts off her son and the dangers he faced — the pit traps with their poisoned barbs, the Harkonnen raids (although these were growing fewer as the Fremen took their toll of aircraft and raiders with the new weapons Paul had given them), and the natural dangers of the desert — makers and thirst and dust chasms.†
Book 3
- DUST CHASM: any deep crevasse or depression on the desert of Arrakis that has been filled with dust not apparently different from the surrounding surface; a deadly trap because human or animal will sink in it and smother.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(chasm) a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface; or (more rarely) any large gap
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion