ice foot

American  

noun

1. (in polar regions) a belt of ice frozen to the shore, formed chiefly as a result of the rise and fall of the tides.

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ice foot British  

noun

1. a narrow belt of ice permanently attached to the coast in polar regions

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Etymology

Origin of ice foot

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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ice foot

Also, Markieff Morris needed his customary postgame ice foot bath but also dealt with the sting of taking an inadvertent knee from Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas to his face in the first quarter.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2017

We were glad that it had stopped snowing and, although the light was bad enough, we could just make out the ice foot showing up bold and white on the south side of the Cape.

From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

Went round Cape Evans—remarkable effects of icicles on the ice foot, formed by spray of southerly gales.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

To the right, however, was the old moraine, just mentioned, consisting of a desolate jumble of rock and gravel and silt overlaying the ice foot.

From The Iron Trail by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Then wandering away in a swirl of drift to clear some irregularities at the ice foot, he completely lost the island when he could only have been a few yards from it.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon