ice tongue

noun

a section of ice projecting from the base of a glacier.

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Origin of ice tongue

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby ice tongue

ice show, ice skate, ice station, ice storm, ice tongs, ice tongue, ice water, ice wine, ice yacht, ice-cold, ice-cream cone
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Example sentences 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