单词 | ice-drift |
释义 | > as lemmasice-drift ice-drift n. a mass or heap of drifted ice; (also) ice which is subject to drifting; cf. snowdrift n. 1. ΚΠ 1789 W. Nicholson tr. M. A. de Benyowsky Mem. & Trav. I. 324 We were surrounded with ice-drifts. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxv. 327 The ice-drift from the southern of these had now piled itself in our way. 1867 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands III. xxxvi. 557 The strait was already filled with ice-drift. 1990 T. Crowley Louisbourg 7 The ice-drifts which menaced navigation in spring were not taken into account and they severly [sic] hampered use of the port as a naval or commercial base. < as lemmas |
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