ice-dammed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Obstructed or held back by ice.
Example Sentences
- "I will merely say that only one of two conclusions seems open to us; either the terraces and water-marks are old sea-margins, or else they are the margins of huge ice-dammed lakes."
- "our base camp was pitched on the marginal moraine close to the eastern scarp of Kverfkjöll and overlooking a little ice-dammed lake."
- "So long as evidence for the existence of the ice-dammed lakes does not simply consist of the meltwater channels themselves, the interpretation of such meltwater channels as overflows cannot be disputed."
- "At the height of the cold stage a massive front of ice sat over the Midlands and north London, and south of it were huge lakes filled by spring thaws and ice-dammed rivers, such as the Thames."
Etymology
From ice dam + -ed.