ice tongue

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noun

a section of ice projecting from the base of a glacier.

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Origin of ice tongue

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby ice tongue

ice show, ice skate, ice station, ice storm, ice tongs, ice tongue, ice-up, ice water, ice wine, ice yacht, ICF

How to use ice tongue in a sentence

At daylight we were able to steer southwest, being at noon about twenty miles north of Termination Ice-Tongue.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
Pushing through the looser edge of pack for a couple of hours we saw the loom of the ice-tongue to the southward.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
The instant he slipped, I made a quick leap for a point of rock that barely pierced the steep ice-tongue.
The Rocky Mountain Wonderland|Enos A. Mills
Our approximate position is forty miles east-north-east of Nordenskjold Ice Tongue.
South!|Sir Ernest Shackleton

The pack was dense and in massive array at the extremity of Termination Ice-Tongue.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson