ice foot

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noun

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

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Origin of ice foot

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby ice foot

ice fish, ice fishing, ice floe, ice flowers, ice fog, ice foot, ice-free, ice front, ice giant, ice hockey, icehouse

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How to use ice foot in a sentence

Here, on the other hand, there was open water, too shallow for the 'Aurora' to be moored alongside the ice-foot.
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Madigan, who was in charge of the whale-boat, kept it moored in the boat-harbour under shelter of the ice-foot.
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On the northern faces of the ridges, fronting the ice-foot, large, yellowish patches mark the sites of penguin rookeries.
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The first penguin came waddling up the ice-foot against a seventy-mile wind late on the afternoon of October 12.
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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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British Dictionary definitions for ice foot

ice foot

noun

a narrow belt of ice permanently attached to the coast in polar regions

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