frazil

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English

Etymology 1

From Canadian French frasil, frazil, fraisil, from French fraisil (coal cinders), from Old French faisil.

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Noun

frazil (countable and uncountable, plural frazils)

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  1. (Canada, US) A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.
    • 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:
      Following currents that flow across the Bering and Chukchi shelves, microplastics from the Pacific that arrive in Arctic waters are gathered up by the tiny crystals that clump together to form ‘frazil’ (the gloss of soft ice that forms on the surface of the water) and then are bound into the sea ice.
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Etymology 2

Noun

frazil (plural frazils)

  1. Alternative form of farasola