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ice needle
noun
meteorol one of many needle-like ice crystals that form cirrus clouds in clear cold weather
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As ice needles freeze, they nudge small rocks to one side or another.
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Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces.
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This is because ice needles have formed, pushing the soil upwards, and the pressure of a footstep crushes them down again.
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It is supplied by thawing ice needles and gravity.
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The punt followed the canals, cut at right angles; progress was slow, impeded by ice needles, that formed by the cold clustered on the sedges of the bank.
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