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frazil
[< Cdn F frasil or frazil < F frasil cinders]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
ice crystals in the form of flakes occurring in rapidly moving, turbulent water, often caused by the rising of anchor or bottom ice.
Quotations
1870
It is when the frasi [sic] or floating snow, interspersed with small ice, is thick on the river that the greatest trouble is met with in crossing. . . .
1886
When the weather becomes milder, or the sky overcast, the frazil rises to the surface or floats off like a mixture of snow and water
1962
Their crews talk glibly . . . during the winter of such phenomena of their trades as ropak, polynya, stamukha, bergy bit, and frazil.