ice-foot

English

Noun

ice-foot (plural ice-foots or ice-feet)

1. Alternative form of ice foot
   • 1882, James Geikie, The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, page 64:

     Along that part of the coast of Greenland where the ice-foot is shed at the end of every summer, the quantities of rock debris thus borne seawards must be something prodigious.

   • 1973, Michigan Academician - Volume 6, page 52:

     Marsh et al. (1973) and Bryan & Marcus (1973) report the occurrence of sand and pebble-sized sediments in the ice-foots of Lake Superior, and Fahnestock et al. (1973, Figure 6) photographed a 20 kg block of shale that was deposited on the flank of an ice-cone by wave activity.

   • 2014, Otto Neumann Sverdrup, New Land, page 153:

     On the evening of July 5, therefore, we drove to Noresund; but here we were met by absolutely ice-free water, and had to take to the ice-foot in order to reach the fast ice inside the fjord.