glaçonn.
/ˈɡlasɒ̃/ A medium-sized ice-floe (see quots.).
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glaçon1933
1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 60 Drift-ice was pretty thick and we were constantly under helm to avoid the ‘pans’, as the seamen and fishermen call them, or ‘glacons’, which, I believe is the scientific term.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation iv. 85 ‘Glacons’, smaller than 650 feet [in diameter].
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