GLACIER MILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glacier mill mean? 

• GLACIER MILL (noun)
  The noun GLACIER MILL has 1 sense:

1. a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation

  Familiarity information: GLACIER MILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLACIER MILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

glacier mill; moulin

Context example:

the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths

Hypernyms ("glacier mill" is a kind of...):

chute; slide; slideway; sloping trough (sloping channel through which things can descend)