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bergy bit
[ bur-gee ]
noun
- a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
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Origin of bergy bit1
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Consider “bergy bit,†used to describe a piece of ice that has broken away from an iceberg.
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Then the war between the ice and the elements will begin afresh, until the once stately ice-mountain will become the ‘bergy bit,’ as whalers call the slowly-lessening mass of crumbling, spongy ice, until it finally disappears in the waters; but only to rise again in the form of vapour, which the cold of the north will convert into snow, the parent of that inland ice about the polar regions which forms the source of subsequent icebergs afresh—the process being always going on, never ending!â€
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