Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a glacier.

Etymologies

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glacier +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Slow-moving layers of tumbling fog rose from the expansive glacierlike sea and moved toward the shoreline.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • The reason, Blanky told Crozier, and Reid had agreed, was that this cape of King William Land was sheltering this stretch of sea and coast, or perhaps of gulf and coast, from the glacierlike river of ice that had poured down so relentlessly from the northwest onto Erebus and Terror and even upon the coast near Terror Camp.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • The frozen composite had been nicknamed icecrete and was guaranteed not to flow, glacierlike, during the weeks and months of Magellan's acceleration.

    The Songs of Distant Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1986

  • The author had once been an ardent admirer of the glacierlike but lovely Bracegirdle, at whose haughty shrine he long worshipped in the hopes that the ice of her reserve might some day melt; and the wits of the coffee-house were wont to say, not without a grain of truth, that when the poet wrote dramas to fit Bracegirdle as the heroine, the lovers therein always pleaded his own passion [A].

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

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