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ice-foot

ice-foot is the alternative form of ice foot.

Meaning of ice foot

Noun

ice foot (plural ice foots or ice feet)

  1. A ledge of ice that forms along the shoreline of the sea or of a great lake.
    • Ice foots often persist into the spring after much of the lake ice has been melted or blown into the lake ; thus they act as breakwaters, protecting the shoreline from erosion and deposition.1975, Richard E. Matthews, Active Microwave Workshop Report

Forms of ice-foot

pluralice-foots
pluralice-feet

Questions about ice-foot

What is ice-foot the alternative form of?
Ice-foot is the alternative form of ice foot.

Words near ice-foot in the dictionary

  1. ice-cubes
  2. ice-dammed
  3. ice-feet
  4. ice-float
  5. ice-floats
  6. ice-foot
  7. ice-foots
  8. ice-free
  9. ice-hearted
  10. ice-house
  11. ice-houses

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