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glacier milk

British

noun

water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock

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glacier milk

Off the great Malaspina Glacier in Alaska the ocean is tinged by the glacier milk for nearly fifty miles from the shores.

From Time and Change by Burroughs, John

The glacier milk which colors the streams that flow from beneath it finally settles and makes clay.

From Time and Change by Burroughs, John

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