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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1850 quote.
Quotations
1850
A tongue is a point of ice projecting nearly horizontally from a part that is under water. Ships have sometimes run aground upon tongues of ice.
1850-51
The object always is, in fastening to an iceberg, to look for a side which is low and sloping without any tongues under water.
1853
I felt at first extremely solicitous about the screw, dreading that some of the floe pieces which had long projecting tongues under water would catch it.