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Icefall

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Noun

1. icefall

a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Icefall

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noun
a very steep part of a glacier that has deep crevasses and resembles a frozen waterfall

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Icefall

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noun
1.  US
a jumbled mass of pulverized ice broken from the terminus of a glacier at the edge of a mountain shelf
2. 
that part of a valley glacier descending an unusually steep slope where the ice is broken by crevasses

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Icefall

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n.
1. The part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall that flows down a steep slope.
2. An avalanche of ice.

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