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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fanciful or poetical name for a glacier.

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Examples

  • It is, perhaps, quite needless to state that but onehalf remains, hence its name, the other half having been carried away by the great ice-river in the stormy time of the Glacial Period.

    DUTCH COURAGE 2010

  • Among many exciting episodes may be mentioned shooting "rattlers" in the Sierras, encounters with narwhals and bears in the Arctic regions, a hairbreadth escape on the terrible ice-river of Spitzbergen, and adventures among the savages of Patagonia. '

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • Years ago, when first detached from the ice-river of some tortuous fiord, it had perhaps measured its depth in hundreds of yards; and even now, judging from its height above the surface of the sea, -- about eight feet on the average, -- it must have drawn nearly eight fathoms of water.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • "See! we are standing upon it now; at least, this glacier is an ice-river of Alaska, and Alaska has not been wiped off the map!"

    On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood

  • It is, perhaps, quite needless to state that but onehalf remains, hence its name, the other half having been carried away by the great ice-river in the stormy time of the Glacial Period.

    Dutch Courage 1922

  • The end of the glacier, or ice-river, had broken off and fallen down into the water!

    The Eskimo Twins 1914

  • It is, perhaps, quite needless to state that but one-half remains, hence its name, the other half having been carried away by the great ice-river in the stormy time of the Glacial Period.

    Dutch Courage 1900

  • It is, perhaps, quite needless to state that but one-half remains, hence its name, the other half having been carried away by the great ice-river in the stormy time of the Glacial Period.

    Dutch Courage and Other Stories Jack London 1896

  • For it is sometimes 600 feet thick, and we are not accustomed to rivers 600 feet deep; no, our rivers are 6 feet, 20 feet, and sometimes 50 feet deep; we are not quite able to grasp so large a fact as an ice-river 600 feet deep.

    A Tramp Abroad 1879

  • Under the projecting edge of this vast ice-river I could see down beneath it to a depth of fifty feet or so in some places, where logs and branches were being crushed to pulp, some of it almost fine enough for paper, though most of it stringy and coarse.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

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