- singular of sastrugi.
sastruga
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sastruga
1830–40; < German < dialectal Russian zastrúga, noun derivative of zastrugátʾ, zastrogátʾ to plane, shave down (wood), equivalent to za- perfective v. prefix + strugátʾ, strogátʾ to plane, smooth (wood)
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The sail was up and, while braking the load upwind, I slipped and fell, allowing the sledge to collide with a large sastruga.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
A fine example of a typical old sastruga was passed on the way.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
As the sledge strikes each sastruga, it skids northwards along it to the discomfort of the wheelers and the disgust of the leader.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
Each of us took it in turn to run ahead, jumping from one sastruga to another.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
One walks into a deep trench or a sastruga two feet high without noticing it.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
After two kilometers, we arrived to find only a sastrugi ridge, pockmarked wind deformations in the icy crust.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
But the most difficult part of the journey, she said, was hauling her heavy load over sastrugi — wavelike speed bumps of snow and ice that can extend for miles.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
The windblown snow, called sastrugi, is exceptionally hard and jostles and tosses the snow machines with every little bump.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2011
Its surface ripples with undulating pressure ridges and solid, wind-hewn waves called sastrugi that move with the ice as it flows inexorably toward the sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were on skis, on a good surface of firn, without sastrugi, and solid—that was certain—for five or six thousand feet down.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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