English Explanatory Dictionary

randkluft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.

Word forms

randkluft randklufts

Etymology

Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).

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