Icefall Definition

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icefalls
noun
A jumbled mass of pulverized ice broken from the terminus of a glacier at the edge of a mountain shelf.
Webster's New World
That part of a valley glacier descending an unusually steep slope where the ice is broken by crevasses.
Webster's New World
An avalanche of ice.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Icefall

Noun

Singular:
icefall
Plural:
icefalls

Origin of Icefall

Icefall Sentence Examples

  • In winter water sometimes freezes on it in a spectacular icefall.

  • To the right of this, a short icefall runs into the bed of the main gill.

  • There were parties on Umbrella falls,over sixties icefall and George but apart from that the other routes looked incomplete.

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Words Starting With

IICICE

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LLLALL

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With I7 Letter Words Ending With L