floating ice crystals that form as small plates drifting in turbulent waters
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Frazil Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
Small, cake-shaped pieces of ice floating down rivers. Name is given, also, to newly-formed ice sheet off coast of Labrador.
Frazil Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
A French-Canadian term for the fine spicular ice, derived from the French words for cinders which this variety of ice most resembles. When formed in slat water it is known as Lolly Ice. When first formed, frazil is colloidal and is not visible in the water.
