frazil

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One of them, ready for use, was covered with the black earth called 'frazil', which is extracted from the site of old charcoal works; the other, in course of construction, showed the successive layers of logs ranged in circles inside, ready for the fire.

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  1. Anchor-ice. [Canada.] It has been suggested that it may be due to the accumulation of frazil or anchor-ice. The Gazette (Montreal), March 17, 1888.

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  • As water cools, it releases heat that turns into frazil ice - a collection of loose, needle shaped ice particles that can cluster together in an ice pan. —  James Randi Educational Foundation
  • If it accumulates enough frazil ice and the current is slow, over time, the pan can become a hanging dam - a dense, heavy piece of ice with high ridges and a low centre. —  James Randi Educational Foundation
  • The City of Evanston issued an urgent news release Friday morning, informing residents that the city Water Treatment Facility had frazil ice crystals and submerged anchor ice on the intake pipes. —  Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM
  • Another request would help fund a $95,000 project to eliminate a flooding problem at Flat Creek caused by frazil ice, which forms in the bottom of the creek, Pardee said.
  • One of them, ready for use, was covered with the black earth called 'frazil', which is extracted from the site of old charcoal works; the other, in course of construction, showed the successive layers of logs ranged in circles inside, ready for the fire. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
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  1. A Canadian-F. term, of obscure origin; perhaps a particular use of French fraisil, cinders, culm, slack; or from French fraise, a collar, ruff, in allusion to the way in which the anchor-ice clings around the boulders at the bottom of a stream.
 

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