glacier table

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noun

a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.

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Origin of glacier table

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby glacier table

glacier cream, glacier lily, glacier milk, Glacier National Park, Glacier Peak, glacier table, glaciologist, glaciology, glacis, glacis plate, Glackens

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How to use glacier table in a sentence

He gets up and goes over to their table and introduces himself, and he says, ‘Hello, I’m Oliver Reed.
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Joel Osteen wants to talk about muting your cell phone at the dinner table.
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After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.
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A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
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That means any response that could result in physical damage inside North Korea is off the table.
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Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
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There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.
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Miss Smith immediately rises from the table, puts up her dear little mouth to her papa to be kissed.
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He sighed as he laid the papers on the table; for he thought the task would be a harder one than even his own immolation.
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British Dictionary definitions for glacier table

glacier table

noun

a rock sitting on a pillar of ice on top of a glacier, as a result of the ice immediately beneath the rock being protected from the heat of the sun and not melting

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