单词 | ice mount |
释义 | ice mountn. = ice mountain n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > close to coast ice mountain1625 ice mount1630 1630 B. Goodall Tryall Trauell i. sig. B4 This watry orbe is various euery where..Now hot and seethes, there ice mountes her couer. 1694 tr. F. Martens in Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 43 These Ice-Mounts change their first colour in time by the Air. 1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 46 Who would not rather shiver on an ice-mount than freeze before the fire which had used to spread comfort thro' his fibres? 1846 Musical Gaz. 26 Oct. 160 Now in dusk and gloom appearing, Lo! the dreadful ice-mount nearing. 1884 E. Reclus Earth & its Inhabitants VI. iii. 169 This mountain, known also as the Wi-tagh (‘House Mount’) and Muz-tagh-ata (‘Father of the Ice Mounts’), rises..to a height of 25500 feet. ?1941 F. H. Moffit in P. S. Smith Mineral Industry of Alaska in 1939 154 The old moraines or debris-covered ice mounts extended an unknown distance in front of [the Delta River Valley]. 2005 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 28 Jan. 13 The rugged beauty of deserts and mountain ranges, the great ice-mounts of the poles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1630 |
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