mo|raine

mo|raine
mo|raine «muh RAYN», noun.
1. a mass or ridge of rocks, dirt, and other natural debris, deposited at the side or end of a glacier, or beneath the ice as the glacier melts. The material is scraped up by the glacier as it moves along.
2. a raised border or ridge formed chiefly of stones on which plants are grown: »

The one essential of the moraine is drainage of the most perfect description (L. B. Meredith).

[< French moraine, perhaps < Provençal mourenne; origin uncertain]

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