˜yÐÄvlog

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ice needles

plural noun

Meteorology.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ice needles1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

As ice needles freeze, they nudge small rocks to one side or another.

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Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces.

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This is because ice needles have formed, pushing the soil upwards, and the pressure of a footstep crushes them down again.

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It is supplied by thawing ice needles and gravity.

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The punt followed the canals, cut at right angles; progress was slow, impeded by ice needles, that formed by the cold clustered on the sedges of the bank.

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