ice foot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ice foot
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Also, Markieff Morris needed his customary postgame ice foot bath but also dealt with the sting of taking an inadvertent knee from Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas to his face in the first quarter.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2017
Then wandering away in a swirl of drift to clear some irregularities at the ice foot, he completely lost the island when he could only have been a few yards from it.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
Our voyage was then continued, often in yet shallower water than before, until the vessel, at 8 o'clock in the morning, struck on a ground ice foot.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
It is a ticklish business to get the sledge along the ice foot, which is now all blue ice ending in a drop to the sea.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
We were glad that it had stopped snowing and, although the light was bad enough, we could just make out the ice foot showing up bold and white on the south side of the Cape.
From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron
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