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ˈice-bolt
[f. bolt n.1]
A ‘bolt’ or dart of ice: hence fig. a. A cold piercing sensation; a sudden deadly chill. b. An avalanche.
1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 38 The keen ice-bolt trembles at her heart. 1829C. A. Bowles Churchyards I. 301 The sudden revulsion of feeling came upon Andrew like an ice-bolt. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. iv. 70 Protecting the inhabitants of the valley from the fearful ice-bolts of the mountain. |