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moulin
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n. (context geology English) A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
Wikipedia
A moulin or glacier mill is a roughly circular, vertical to nearly vertical well-like shaft within a glacier or ice sheet which water enters from the surface. The term is derived from the French word for mill.
They can be up to 10 meters wide and are typically found on ice sheets and flat areas of a glacier in a region of transverse crevasses. Moulins can reach the bottom of the glacier, hundreds of meters deep, or may only reach the depth of common crevasse formation (about 10–40 m) where the stream flows englacially. They are the most typical cause for the formation of a glacier cave.
Moulins are a part of a glacier's internal "plumbing" system, that carry meltwater from the surface down to wherever it may go. Water from a moulin often exits the glacier at base level, sometimes into the sea, and occasionally the lower end of a moulin may be exposed in the face of a glacier or at the edge of a stagnant block of ice.
Water from moulins may help lubricate the base of the glacier, affecting glacial motion. Given an appropriate relationship between an ice sheet and the terrain, the head of water in a moulin can provide the power and medium with which a tunnel valley may be formed. The role of this water in lubricating the base of ice sheets and glaciers is complex and it is implicated in accelerating the speed of glaciers and thus the rate of glacial calving.
Moulin is a Charleroi Metro station, located on the border of Marchienne-au-Pont and Monceau-sur-Sambre (both part of the Charleroi municipality), in fare zone 2. The station is built on a viaduct and features a central platform with escalator and stairs access at the western end, leading to two separate street accesses (one on each side of the Rue de Mons).
Moulin and du Moulin are French-language surnames. "Moulin" literally means "mill".
The surname may refer to:
- Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, politician in the French Revolution
- Jean Moulin, member of the French Resistance during World War II
- Pierre Du Moulin, Huguenot minister and author in France
- Lewis Du Moulin, French Huguenot physician and controversialist, son of Pierre
- Peter du Moulin, French-English Anglican clergyman and author, son of Pierre
Usage examples of "moulin".
After some dark and indirect steps the pious Agaric was put into communication in a room in the Moulin de la Galette, with comrades Dagobert, Tronc, and Balafille, the secretaries of three unions of which the first numbered fourteen members, the second twenty-four, and the third only one.
Copeaux regardait en sifflant tourner les ailes travailleuses de son moulin.
Liesse, une route crayeuse qui traverse une plaine seche, semee de vieux moulins a vent aux ailes decharnees, et coupee ca et la par des bouquets de bouleaux.
In the instant before Dinh swung the edge again toward one of the legs of the giant clown, making the shimmering figure hop mindlessly back, Diana had seen that the Moulin Rouge chip was thinned down to no more than coin-thickness now and was white as a bone.
Lake Mead, showing me how to bait hooks, and on my last day with him, when I was five, he took me to the Flamingo for breakfast and to the Moulin Rouge for lunch.
Angers, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Albi, Moulins, Montpellier, Clermont sulphur, saltpetre, steel, and arms.
He resigns the Presidency of the Council of the Five Hundred--He is carried out by grenadiers--He harangues the troops--A dramatic scene --Murat and his soldiers drive out the Five Hundred--Council of Thirty--Consular commission--Decree--Return to Paris--Conversation with Bonaparte and Josephine respecting Gohier and Bernadotte--The directors Gohier and Moulins imprisoned.
A ridiculous incident, the fact that the wife of a subprefect had danced at the Moulin Rouge, forced the minister to face a vote of censure, and he was within a few votes of being defeated.
Biscarrat recruited forty combatants on the way, amongst whom was Moulin, head of the association of leather-dressers.
Rue des Moulins, to the house of the ex-Constituent Landrin, in the division of the 5th Legion, to deliberate more at their ease, and they begged me to join them.
Charamaule undertook to send to the Rue des Moulins to tell the other members of the committee that we would wait for them at No.
Rue des Moulins, although warned that the police had already made a raid upon this house.
Rue des Moulins, in the large drawing-room, out of which opened a little room where the Committee of Resistance was in session.
A workman, a currier, named Moulins, who had taken refuge in one of these shot-riddled cellars, saw through the cellar air-hole a passer-by, who had been wounded in the thigh by a bullet, sit down on the pavement with the death rattle in his throat, and lean against a shop.
If Vassal, the Commissary of Police, who met us on the morning of the 4th, on the pavement of the Rue des Moulins, had wished, we might have been taken that day.