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Moulin
//ˈmuːlæn// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from French.
Noun
- 1 A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
- 2 a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French moulin, from Late Latin molinum (“mill”). Doublet of moline and mill.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French Moulin.
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