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icefall definition

ice·fall (īs′fôl′)

noun

  1. ☆ a jumbled mass of pulverized ice broken from the terminus of a glacier at the edge of a mountain shelf
  2. that part of a valley glacier descending an unusually steep slope where the ice is broken by crevasses

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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