HyperDic: glacier_mill

English > 1 sense of the expression glacier mill:
NOUNartifactglacier mill, moulina chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation
English > glacier mill: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
MeaningA chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation.
Synonymmoulin
Broaderchute, slide, slideway, sloping troughsloping channel through which things can descend

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