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ˈice-fall
[After waterfall.]
1. A cataract of ice; a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall.
1817Coleridge Sibyll. Leaves Poet. Wks. (1862) 184 Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xv. 100 We were amid the wild chasms at the brow of the ice-fall. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe iv, We followed the usual track..as far as the top of the great icefall of the..glacier.
2. The fall of a mass of ice, from an ice-cliff or iceberg.
1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 261 Then the ice-fall, with its ringing, rumbling, crashing roar, and the heavy, explosion⁓like voice of the final plunge, followed by the wild, frantic dashing of the waters. |