ice foot

English

Noun

ice foot (plural ice foots or ice feet)

1. A ledge of ice that forms along the shoreline of the sea or of a great lake.
   • 1975, Richard E. Matthews, Active Microwave Workshop Report:

     Ice foots often persist into the spring after much of the lake ice has been melted or blown into the lake ; thus they act as breakwaters, protecting the shoreline from erosion and deposition.

   • 2011, Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice:

     “At last we got out on to the ice foot overlooking the sea ice, and there were the Emperor Penguins,” Wilson wrote.

   • 2011, Alexander Leslie, The Arctic Voyages of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 1858-1879, page 149:

     In the water near the surface swam Pteropocla and Copepoda, their forms and colour sharply defined against the clear “ice feet” (the extensive under-water parts of the swimming blocks).