Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall that flows down a steep slope.
- noun An avalanche of ice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dislodgment and fall of masses from a glacier, or from a floating iceberg.
- noun A glacier. [Poetical.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A relatively rapid and turbulent
flow ofice , somewhat analogous to awaterfall
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall
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Examples
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The icefall was a maze of crevasses and teetering seracs.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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The icefall created waves as tall as 11.5 feet, which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes.
Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier 2011
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Keith documented the icefall that claimed one of the Sherpas.
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Every now and then I could hear a big chunk of icefall breaking off a serac to our right and crashing down the mountain in the dark.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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But this year, the route drawn by icefall doctors crossed very near the west shoulder which held an enormous cliff of seracs ready to collapse at any time.
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But this year, the route drawn by icefall doctors crossed very near the west shoulder which held an enormous cliff of seracs ready to collapse at any time.
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But this year, the route drawn by icefall doctors crossed very near the west shoulder which held an enormous cliff of seracs ready to collapse at any time.
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But this year, the route drawn by icefall doctors crossed very near the west shoulder which held an enormous cliff of seracs ready to collapse at any time.
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But this year, the route drawn by icefall doctors crossed very near the west shoulder which held an enormous cliff of seracs ready to collapse at any time.
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It is hard to believe standing here high in the Khumbu icefall that a glacier like this could simply disappear.
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