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ˈice-plough
1. ‘An instrument used in America for cutting grooves in the ice on ponds and lakes, to facilitate the removal of blocks of 1 or 2 cwt. which are stored for summer use’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).
1884Cassell's Fam. Mag. Feb. 188/1 The ice-area is..then trenched or sawn by the ice-plough..a succession of curved blades like teeth attached to a long beam.
2. Applied to a glacier, from its action in furrowing rocks and scooping out valleys.
1881Rep. Geol. Explor. N. Zealand 57 How potent has been, and still is, the great ‘ice-plough’. |