gletschern.
rare.
A glacier.
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1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 578 Vast fragments of ice called Gletschers.
1796 Ann. Med. 1 23 In those very countries nearest to the gletschern [etc.].
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 308 Ev'n at th' eternal Gletscher's ice-clad foot I sought and found cabins inhabited.
1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 104 Or be ducked in a gletcher, as they ought to be.
1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 32 Riding the sullen landscape far from friends Through the jungle of lava..Fording the gletcher.
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