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ˈice-field
A wide flat expanse of ice, esp. of marine ice in the Polar regions.
1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 40 Ice-fields, that are as the Meadows for the Seales. 1748H. Ellis Hudson's Bay 240 We saw vast numbers of Seals and Sea-Horses lying basking upon the Ice-Fields. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 110 The ice-field before us was a most noble one. 1890Boldrewood Col. Reformer (1891) 175 A fresh blast had been unchained among the far south ice-fields. |