单词 | bergschrund |
释义 | bergschrundn. Physical Geography. A crevasse or series of crevasses often found near the head of a mountain glacier. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > crevasse crevasse1823 bergschrund1843 crevice1852 rimaye1869 schrund1870 randkluft1883 slot1959 1843 J. D. Forbes Trav. Alps of Savoy 298 I perceived an enormous Berg-schrund, or well defined crevass, which separated the higher summits from the glacier steep. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 98 This slope was intersected by a so-called Bergschrund, the lower portion of the slope being torn away from its upper portion to form a crevasse. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 84 A broad fringe of snow ending in a bergschrund. 1897 Outing (U.S.) 29 339 Crevasses..varying in width from fissures that a child could easily step across, to yawning ‘bergschrunds’, ten or twelve feet wide. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 24/1 At the foot of a snow or ice slope is generally a big crevasse, called a bergschrund. 1957 J. Masters Far, Far the Mountain Peak 99 There was the usual bergschrund between the snow and the warmer rock of the gendarme. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1843 |
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