Both Uses of
glacier
in
The Sun Also Rises
- ... a man who had been frozen in the Alps and then fallen into a glacier and his bride was going to wait twenty-four years exactly for his body to come out on the moraine,
Book 2 *glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- We could not make our way through but had to be moved with the whole thing, slowly, as a glacier, back to town.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(glacier) a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
The form glacial, in addition to meaning relates to a glacier, can mean:- moves very slowly (like a glacier)
- relates to a geological time period when much of the earth was covered with glaciers
- relates to ice or cold (often metaphorically) -- as in "She gave me a glacial stare."
editor's notes: Glaciers are thought of as moving very slowly and slow ones may move as little as a foot or two a year, but there are also fast-moving glaciers that can move as much as ninety feet per day.