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frazil

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɹæ.zəl/Sorted afilrzStarts with FEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

Word origin

From Canadian French frasil, frazil, fraisil, from French fraisil (“coal cinders”), from Old French faisil.

Used in a sentence

  • It has been suggested that it may be due to the accumulation of frazil or anchor-ice.
  • The greater the surface of the swift open water, the greater the quantity of frazil made in a minute, hour, or day. Every open rapid is, in ‘zero weather’, a frazil-factory.

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