glacieretn.
/ɡlasɪəˈrɛt//ˈɡleɪsɪərɛt//ˈɡleɪʃərɛt/ A small glacier; applied by Leconte to a mass of ice revealed after an extended period of dry weather has caused the wastage of overlying névé in the Sierra Nevada.
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glacieret1875
1875 J. Leconte in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 10 138 The thin moving ice-fields, the glacierets which still linger among the highest peaks and shadiest hollows of the Sierra.
1889 Cent. Dict. s.v. The glacierets are considered by some to be properly denominated glaciers, and by others to be something quite different from true glaciers.
1904 G. K. Gilbert Glaciers & Glaciation i. 11 Small alpine glaciers are sometimes called glacierets, or, if visible high on the sides of mountain valleys, hanging glaciers.
1922 C. S. Wright & R. E. Priestley Glaciol. 109 A snow-drift glacier, or glacieret.
1951 G. Taylor Geogr. 20th Cent. 614 Glacierets, small glaciers, may develop from snow~drifts.
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