glacier mill

1. 1.

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

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

   Synonymsmoulin

   Broaderchute

Questions about glacier mill

What does glacier mill mean?

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

What is another word for glacier mill?

Close synonyms include moulin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glacier mill a common word?

glacier mill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.