All 4 Uses of
fissure
in
The Return of the King
- There smokes trailed on the ground and lurked in hollows, and fumes leaked from fissures in the earth.†
Chpt 6.2 *
- The largest of these holes were rimmed with ridges of broken rock, and broad fissures ran out from them in all directions.†
Chpt 6.3
- With that he carried all the gear away to one of the many gaping fissures that scored the land and threw them in.†
Chpt 6.3
- But only a short way ahead its floor and the walls on either side were cloven by a great fissure, out of which the red glare came, now leaping up, now dying down into darkness; and all the while far below there was a rumour and a trouble as of great engines throbbing and labouring.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
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(fissure) a long, narrow crack; or its creation -- especially in the ground or in rock
or:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation