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ice foot

noun

  1. (in polar regions) a belt of ice frozen to the shore, formed chiefly as a result of the rise and fall of the tides.


ice foot

noun

  1. a narrow belt of ice permanently attached to the coast in polar regions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ice foot1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

Here, on the other hand, there was open water, too shallow for the 'Aurora' to be moored alongside the ice-foot.

Madigan, who was in charge of the whale-boat, kept it moored in the boat-harbour under shelter of the ice-foot.

On the northern faces of the ridges, fronting the ice-foot, large, yellowish patches mark the sites of penguin rookeries.

The first penguin came waddling up the ice-foot against a seventy-mile wind late on the afternoon of October 12.

A heaving swell came in from the north, and many seals landed within the boat harbour, where a high tide lapped over the ice-foot.

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