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1857 J. Tyndall in Proc. Royal Soc. 1856–7 8 333 The continuity of the fractured ice cannot be completely and immediately re-established after rupture; it is not the same surfaces that are regelated, and hence the new contact cannot be perfect throughout.

1872 W. Eassie Healthy Houses 206 An ice-well..contains, when full, no less than 3,000 tons, all regelated, by the working of a natural law, into one vast mass.

1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xliii. 158 It..regelated itself into a somewhat compact essay on glaciers.

1897 I. Singer & L. H. Berens Some Unrecognized Laws Nat. iii. v. 196 Melting ice causes a depression of temperature sufficient to regelate two bits of ice, even when immersed in warm water!

1858 M. Faraday Let. 23 July in M. Faraday Corr. (2008) V. 419 If the finest snow be scattered into water..& be shaken violently up together so as to make a thorough mixture of the snow particles & the water;..—still, a portion of these taken in the hand & squeezed together regellate.

1898 Ice & Refrigeration Aug. 92/1 Smooth faces such as result from plate ice adhere (regelate) so firmly as to leave no apparent plane of weakness.

1938 Geogr. Rev. 28 415 Thaw water, regelating on the firn grains.

1956 W. C. Michels et al. Internat. Dict. Physics & Electronics 766 Ice at the normal melting point will, if it is subjected to pressure, become liquid, and will ‘regelate’ or refreeze when the pressure is removed.

2002 N. R. Iverson in J. Menzies Mod. & Past Glacial Environments (rev. ed.) v. 134/2 A bed-normal gradient in pressure..that forces ice to regelate and deform past the clast.