Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Built or composed of ice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Composed of ice.
- adjective Loaded with ice.
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Examples
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"Thus passed the long days of our anxious drift, until your vessel steamed back to her old sealing-ground, and we left forever behind us our ice-built hut and the Deadman's Berg."
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, 55
Progress of Poesy 1919
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Where shaggy forms oer ice-built mountains roam, 55
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She wanted at this instant to have done with the snow-world, the terrible, static ice-built mountain tops.
Women in Love 1907
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Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, 55
Progress of Poesy 1875
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Dog-team after dog-team stood all day in rows, or more correctly lay snowed up before the ice-built flight of steps to the deck of the
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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