ice mountainn.
/ˈʌɪs ˌmaʊntᵻn/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌmaʊnt(ə)n/ A mountainous accumulation of ice; spec. = iceberg n. 1, 2. Cf. ice mount n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > close to coast
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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. Alphabet. Table sig. ccccv/1 Ice-mountaines of eight leagues.
1694 tr. F. Martens in Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 20 There are seven large Ice-Mountains in a Line..which look of a glorious blew colour.
1729 J. G. Scheuchzer in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 588 The hinder Rhine takes its Rise..from a Gletcher, or Ice-mountain.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 247 Thus are these amazing ice mountains launched forth to sea, and found floating in the waters round both the Poles.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 101 The Iceberg..written Ysberg by the Dutch signifies ice-mountain. I speak..of those prodigious lodgments of ice which occur in the valleys.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiv. 104 I noticed very many ice-mountains traveling to the north in opposition to both wind and surface ice.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Nov. 3/2 The steamer slipped past only a few feet away from the dangerous floating ice-mountain.
1986 G. Benford & D. Brin Heart of Comet (1987) ii. 83 The great, tumbling ice mountain hurtled outward into the void.
2001 Toronto Star 13 Jan. l5/3 You can..climb an 8-metre ice mountain, visit a sugar shack, go for a snowmobile ride, or wander the Amerindian Trail.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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