ice-foot
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of ice foot.
Example Sentences
- "Along that part of the coast of Greenland where the ice-foot is shed at the end of every summer, the quantities of rock debris thus borne seawards must be something prodigious."
- "Marsh et al. (1973) and Bryan & Marcus (1973) report the occurrence of sand and pebble-sized sediments in the ice-foots of Lake Superior, and Fahnestock et al. (1973, Figure 6) photographed a 20 kg block of shale that was deposited on the flank of an ice-cone by wave activity."
- "On the evening of July 5, therefore, we drove to Noresund; but here we were met by absolutely ice-free water, and had to take to the ice-foot in order to reach the fast ice inside the fjord."