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iceblink|ˈaɪsblɪŋk|
[= Du. ijsblink, G. eisblink, Da. iisblink, -blik, Sw. isblink; f. ice n. + blink n.2 4.
The question of the original language, and history of this combination, is obscure. Sense 2 is the only meaning of iisblink in the Dictionary of the Danish Academy in 1820.]
1. A luminous appearance on the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice. See blink n.2 4.
[1772–1818: see blink n.1 4. 1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 71 A bright appearance near the horizon, which the pilots called the blink of the ice.] 1817Scoresby in Ann. Reg., Chron. 555 The ice-blink consists in a stratum of a lucid whiteness, which appears in that part of the atmosphere next the horizon. 1847Sir J. C. Ross Voy. S. Seas I. 171 The weather was beautifully clear, and a strong ice-blink in the sky. 1885Century Mag. XXX. 78/2 Over it [the floe edge] hung the hazy gray of the ‘ice-blink’.
2. The name of a range of lofty ice cliffs on the south-east coast of Greenland. Also generally: An ice-cliff, the sea-front of a glacier. ? Obs.
[1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 132 The famous Ice-glance, called in some charts, Eis-blink. It is a large high field of ice.] 1819Montgomery Greenland iii. 63 O'er rocks, seas, islands, promontories spread, The Ice-Blink rears its undulated head. [Note] The most stupendous accumulation of ice in the known world, which has been long distinguished by this peculiar name by the Danish navigators. 1837Macdougall tr. Graah's E. Coast Greenland (1839) 24 To such cliffs or barriers of ice I shall in the sequel give the name of ice-blink, or simply blink. The reflection of ice in the atmosphere, which is usually designated by that name, I shall, for distinction's sake, call ‘sky-blink’. Ibid. 71 In the interior of the bay some four or five not inconsiderable ice-blinks protrude into the sea. |