ice-scoured

American  

[ahys-skou^uhrd, -skou-erd] / ˈaɪsˌskaʊərd, -ˌskaʊ ərd /

adjective

Physical Geography.

1. noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.

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Etymology

Origin of ice-scoured

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Over the ice-scoured rocks, and above the timber-line, the trail ran around Crater Lake and gained the rocky defile that led toward Happy Camp and the first scrub pines.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

In its bed, among muddy pools of water and ice-scoured rocks, he wandered, picking up fat nugget-gold.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

Over the ice-scoured rocks and above the timber-line, the trail ran around Crater Lake and gained the rocky defile that led toward Happy Camp and the first scrub-pines.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack