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ice foot
ice footn. A belt or ledge of ice that forms along the shoreline in Arctic regions.ice foot n (Physical Geography) a narrow belt of ice permanently attached to the coast in polar regions ice foot
ice foot[′īs ¦fu̇t] (oceanography) Sea ice firmly frozen to a polar coast at the high-tide line and unaffected by tide; this fast ice is formed by the freezing of seawater during ebb tide, and of spray, and it is separated from the floating sea ice by a tide crack. |