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Answer for the clue "Creeping ice mass ", 7 letters:
glacier

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Raymond M. Lloyd (born May 13, 1964) is an American martial artist , professional wrestler , and actor . He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling from 1996 to 1999 under the ring name Glacier .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1744, from French glacier , from Savoy dialect glacière "moving mass of ice," from Old French glace "ice," from Vulgar Latin glacia (source also of Old Provençal glassa , Italian ghiaccia ), from Latin glacies (see glacial ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a slowly moving mass of ice

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 90 Housing Units (2000): 228 Land area (2000): 3.007073 sq. miles (7.788284 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.007073 sq. miles (7.788284 sq. km) FIPS code: 26875 Located within: Washington ...

Usage examples of glacier.

I first saw clearly the great glacier among the mountains to the southwest, which was to give us a pathway from the sea level of the Barrier up to the altiplano, ten thousand feet above.

I I SILVER WINGS, SANTIAGO BLUE The deep blueness of a glacier colored her look.

Fine calcareous dust, loss, was picked up from the crushed rock at the edges of the glaciers and deposited for hundreds of miles.

And Tia and Old King Cold were separated from the rest of their group, driven in different directions, until even the king--who had lived his entire life in the frozen climes and knew every glacier and every bit of frozen tundra as if it was his own body--even he had no idea which way was east or west, or even up or down.

Hardboileds, toffee, fudge and allsorts, crunches, cracknels, humbugs, glaciers, marzipan, and butterwelsh for the Welsh.

On the lip of this summit, however, which was circular and hollow, rested a tremendous flat boulder, something like a glacier stone--perhaps it was one, for all I know to the contrary--and the end of this boulder approached to within twelve feet or so of us.

Something short of the summit of the Saint Gothard pass, the great road of the Furca diverges to the right, passes the Rhone Glacier, enters the Rhone Valley, and conducts you to Brieg and the foot of the Simplon.

But immediately after the young mountains were born, the rain and the glaciers had begun their work, gouging and eroding, washing the mountains back to the sea: On this turbulent planet, rock flowed like water, and mountain ranges rose and fell like dreams.

Then he was going to hold grim carnival on the glacier with Keelhaul de Rosa and his killer group.

I trade north of Ax Glacier for the furs of sleen, the pelts of leem and larts.

She told him about Leep, and her mother, and Fami and its history, and the glacier and her escape.

Beyond, all the way to the sheer walls of the immense northern glacier, lay the arid loess steppes, an environment that existed only when glaciers were on the land, during the Ice Age.

They dragged themselves upward in a worn and weary way, for they had been climbing steadily from the Grand Mulets, on the Glacier des Dossons, since three in the morning, and it was eleven, now.

There are no sastruga fields, no snow humps, no crevasses or glaciers, no ice streams flowing through the sheet to calve bergs.

The Pissaillas glacier looms above the town, skiable through most of the summer.