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[ ahys-fawl ] / ˈaɪsˌfɔl /
nouna jumbled mass of ice in a glacier. a mass of ice overhanging a precipice. a falling of ice from a glacier, iceberg, etc. Origin of icefallFirst recorded in 1810–20; ice + fall Words nearby icefallice cube, iced, ice dance, ice dancing, ice dock, icefall, ice feathers, ice field, ice fish, ice fishing, ice floe Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for icefallSadly one Sherpa, from another team, has now been killed in the Icefall. One Sherpa Killed, Another Breaks Back as Harry's Everest Climbers Turn Back|Tom Sykes|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST Coming back through the Icefall on Friday the boys missed two rock falls by no more than three minutes. One Sherpa Killed, Another Breaks Back as Harry's Everest Climbers Turn Back|Tom Sykes|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST Some way up or by the side of the icefall of the Lobbia Glacier is yet to be found, but is probably possible. Italian Alps|Douglas William Freshfield It seemed best to climb the rocks and avoid complications in the icefall. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
In ten minutes we came to another corridor like the first, which brought us out above the icefall. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury Changed "icefall" to "ice-fall" on page xxvi: "part of ice-fall." The Glaciers of the Alps|John Tyndall Even as we entered the icefall our feet had occasionally broken the crust; as we came out of it we were stamping a trail. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
British Dictionary definitions for icefall
nouna very steep part of a glacier that has deep crevasses and resembles a frozen waterfall Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |