ice footn.
/ˈʌɪs fʊt/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌfʊt/ A belt or ledge of ice attached to and extending along the shore in polar regions. Also: a protruding ledge (typically submerged) on the margin of an ice floe, etc.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 84 At the very period of high-water she took the ground, while close under the walls of the ice-foot.
1875 A. C. Ramsay & J. Evans in T. R. Jones Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland iii. 76 The ice-foot or flat fringe of ice that adheres to the shore for a time after the main masses of the ice-floes have become detached from it.
1917 W. G. B. Murdoch Mod. Whaling & Bear-hunting xxxi. 261 We mistakenly try to get between them before they close, and run our stem and half our keel on to A, the submerged ice-foot of the floe B.
1961 Arctic 14 229 The ice foot is frozen solidly to the shore and is separated from the floating sea-ice, which moves vertically with the tides, by a strip of broken ice.
2002 D. G. Ainley Adélie Penguin vii. 205 Leopard seals wait quietly at the ice foot with just their nostrils above the water surface.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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