Search for crossword answers and clues
Granular snow atop a glacier
Answer for the clue "Granular snow atop a glacier ", 4 letters:
firn
Alternative clues for the word firn
Word definitions for firn in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Firn (; from Swiss German "last year's", cognate with before ) is partially compacted névé , a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is ice that is at an intermediate stage ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"consolidated snow, the raw material of glaciers," 1839, literally "last year's snow, névé," from German Firn , from Swiss dialectal firn "of last year," from Middle High German virne "old," from Old High German firni , related to Old English fyrn "old," ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snow-cone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current ...
Usage examples of firn.
As Dane passed Firn the two men puffed their chests out like lighting roosters.
Once more, as the firn melted, the pipe of separate instruments reached towards orchestral pitch.
Eventually the weight of the mass of frozen water broke the delicate flakes into pieces that coalesced into small round balls of ice: firn, corn snow.
Our skis, our sharp edges which others are forever trying to smooth off, bite hard into the firn, the snow marked with signs: every man for himself on this white festive garb on which we are tumbled like refuse.
Pewt come down to the house and said where was you last nite and i said me and Beany was making sweet firn segars over to Beanys and i gave him 2 segars.
Missis Sawyer blabing to Beanys mother and she said she wood go in and see if Elly was in and when she come in Beany said mother jest see how many segars me and Plupy has made and he held up a lot that we made last week and she said you boys must have wirked a long time and Beany he said it takes a good deal of time to make so many and she went back looking prety pleased becaus she thougt Beany dident ring the old doorbell and she told old Missis Sawyer that we had been making sweet firn segars all the evening in the kitchin.
Si Smiths and i paid for them and then we went over to Beanys and got a lot of sweet firn segars and then we went down town agen.
Hobbs opened the door quick and gumped out and grabed the man and said you rascul i have got you and the man said you old fool are you crasy and then old Hobbs he said i thougt it was that Purinton boy ringing my door bell and then the man went in the house and we wated til they had shet the door and we put for home and made sum sweet firn segars.
Beany he took a glass and drunk it and lit a cigar, a sweet firn one and said how is trade, and i said they is quite a little stiring, and he said have you got mutch stock and i said most sold out but they is plenty more where that come from and Beany he said dont you want to by my stuff and i said no i gess not.
After a while Ayo said, "She went down to Firn with some of the young folk.