ice tongue
|
noun
a section of ice projecting from the base of a glacier.
RELATED CONTENT
What Is It Called When A Person Is “Speaking In Tongues?”A person who has what is known as “the gift of tongues” is usually in the midst of religious ecstasy, trance, or delirium. The speaker — and often witnesses too — believe that they are being possessed by a supernatural spirit or channeling the language of a deity or divine being, although the words are incomprehensible otherwise. Experts call this phenomenon glossolalia, a Greek compound of the words …
Nearby words
ice show, ice skate, ice station, ice storm, ice tongs, ice tongue, ice water, ice wine, ice yacht, ice-cold, ice-cream cone
Origin of ice tongue
First recorded in 1890–95
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for ice tongue
Pushing through the looser edge of pack for a couple of hours we saw the loom of the ice-tongue to the southward.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson