ice tongue
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noun
a section of ice projecting from the base of a glacier.
Nearby words
ice skater, ice skating, ice station, ice storm, ice tongs, ice tongue, ice water, ice wine, ice yacht, ice-blue, ice-capade
Origin of ice tongue
First recorded in 1890–95
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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