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Moulin Moderate

Moulin has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation

"the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths"

2

A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.

"The guide explained how the hidden moulin acts as a direct highway for water to travel deep beneath the ice before draining into subglacial rivers."

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
chute
Rhyming Words
lin olin blin elin jilin volin kylin colin bilin arlin aylin tolin holin orlin qilin illin malin calin lalin talin
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