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ice-shelf en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ice shelf.
   alt of ice shelf
   • All planes reached the old base on the eventing of the next day —January 27th—after a swift non-stop flight; and on the 28th we made McMurdo Sound in two laps, the one pause being very brief, and occasioned by a faulty rudder in the furious wind over the ice-shelf after we had cleared the great plateau. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
   • But he found no Alaloi, and he urged his dogs carefully across the crevasses of the Fairleigh ice-shelf, back out onto the sea. 2000, Orson Scott Card, Future On Ice, →ISBN:
   • Thunderous roars warned us that the whole ice-shelf had entered a hyperactive phase, causing hitherto safe snow-bridges to collapse all around us into their crevasses. 2009, Ranulph Fiennes, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, →ISBN:

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