verglas

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Climbing up to the plateau required us to weave our way through cliff bands choked with verglas and ice formed in the freeze-thaw cycles of recent days.

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  • But the verglas was my world -- it was everything. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • Climbing up to the plateau required us to weave our way through cliff bands choked with verglas and ice formed in the freeze-thaw cycles of recent days. —  Backpacking Light Magazine
  • We encountered all sorts of terrain that is easily navigable in the winter, but 'spooky' with only a thin cover of snow (and sometimes, verglas), such as this steep granite slab, which we descended in snowshoes. —  Backpacking Light Magazine
  • It was all ice and snow and cold mist and verglas, and the precipices were smooth--a man would never get across; so it was not worth while crossing the Nufenen Pass if I was to be balked at the Crystal, and I determined on the Gries Pass. —  The Path to Rome
  • While there rain fell and the streets were covered with _verglas_. —  Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
 

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  1. French, from Old French verre-glaz : verre, glass (from Latin vitrum) + glas, glace, ice (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs; see glacé).
 

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