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Crater
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
2. The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
3. A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.