seracn.

/səˈrak/

Forms: Also sérac.

Etymology: < Swiss-French sérac, originally the name of a kind of white cheese; the transferred application was doubtless suggested by similitude of form.

(See quot. 1898.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > tower of ice formed on

serac1860

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 51 These ridges are often cleft by fissures..thus forming detached towers of ice..Foot-note. To such towers the name Séracs is applied.

1891 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 8 Fissures and seracs where the glacier moves down the steeper portion of its incline.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 54/1 (Mountaineering) Serac, a tower of ice on a glacier, formed by the intersection of crevasses.

1900 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 29 295 Weathering occurs where variations of external temperature penetrate to the bed-rock, as is particularly the case between the séracs of glacial cascades.

1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. iii. 92 They came on ice-fields..and mountainous seracs which would have puzzled an Alpine climber.

1936 M. Roberts Poems 36 The snow falls, and the séracs; and the green glacier-ice Moves down.

1963 ‘G. Carr’ Lewker in Norway vi. 124 On the further side of the right-hand ridge he could just see the upper séracs of the Bojumsbre.

1979 C. Kilian Icequake vi. 86 Huge fields of seracs—the topographical nightmare caused by intersecting crevasses.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	serac
释义	seracn. /səˈrak/ Forms: Also sérac. Etymology: < Swiss-French sérac, originally the name of a kind of white cheese; the transferred application was doubtless suggested by similitude of form. (See quot. 1898.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > tower of ice formed on serac1860 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 51 These ridges are often cleft by fissures..thus forming detached towers of ice..Foot-note. To such towers the name Séracs is applied. 1891 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 8 Fissures and seracs where the glacier moves down the steeper portion of its incline. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 54/1 (Mountaineering) Serac, a tower of ice on a glacier, formed by the intersection of crevasses. 1900 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 29 295 Weathering occurs where variations of external temperature penetrate to the bed-rock, as is particularly the case between the séracs of glacial cascades. 1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. iii. 92 They came on ice-fields..and mountainous seracs which would have puzzled an Alpine climber. 1936 M. Roberts Poems 36 The snow falls, and the séracs; and the green glacier-ice Moves down. 1963 ‘G. Carr’ Lewker in Norway vi. 124 On the further side of the right-hand ridge he could just see the upper séracs of the Bojumsbre. 1979 C. Kilian Icequake vi. 86 Huge fields of seracs—the topographical nightmare caused by intersecting crevasses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1860
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