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ˈice-work
1. Ornamentation executed in ice, or having the appearance of ice; frosted work.
1729Savage Wanderer i. 107 On this bleak Height tall Firs, with Ice-work crown'd, Bend, while their flaky Winter shades the Ground! 1790W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 7 The walls should be lined with flints, decorated with ice-work.
2. Geol. Work done by glaciers or icebergs.
1843Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 333 My marine theory for these roads was..knocked on the head by Agassiz' ice-work. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 304 The ice-work done by the extinct glaciers, as contrasted with that performed by their dwarfed representatives of the present day.
3. Mountaineering. Climbing on icy surfaces; the techniques of such climbing.
1856A. Wills Wanderings High Alps xiv. 288 Our ice hatchet..was..better adapted to the mere ice-work we had then to perform. 1892C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering iv. 125 For a snow expedition—that is, one in which snow and ice work will probably form the chief difficulties—the numbers of a party may be largely increased even to eight or ten. 1940F. S. Chapman Helvellyn to Himalaya iv. 89, I was not much good on really difficult rock, my experience of step-cutting and ice-work was small. Ibid. v. 98 At last, in early September, by developing an entirely new technique of ice-work, the ridge was reached. |