Gap

gap, n. an opening made by rupture or parting: a cleft: a pa age: a deep ravine in a mountain-ridge: any breach of continuity.— v.t. to notch: to make a gap in.— adjs. Gap′py , full of gaps; Gap-toothed , lacking some of the teeth.— Stand in the gap , to stand forward in active defence of something; Stop a gap , to repair a defect, close a breach. [M. E. gappe —Ice. gap , an opening.]