ice foot

(in polar regions) a belt of ice frozen to the shore, formed chiefly as a result of the rise and fall of the tides.

Compare fast ice.

Origin of ice foot

First recorded in 1850–55

Groping for the ice-foot, they trudged fourteen wretched hours, and reached the old igloë at Anoatok.

North-Pole Voyages |Zachariah Atwell Mudge
The ice-foot along Smith Sound is a superb highway, where otherwise sledge travel would be quite impossible along the coast.

My Attainment of the Pole |Frederick A. Cook
During this journey he first observed 257 the peculiar ice formation now known as the ice-foot, but then novel.

Explorers and Travellers |Adolphus W. Greely
The first penguin came waddling up the ice-foot against a seventy-mile wind late on the afternoon of October 12.

The Home of the Blizzard |Douglas Mawson

The latter, after several narrow escapes, took refuge on an ice-foot projecting from the edge of the floe.

The Home of the Blizzard |Douglas Mawson

ice foot

a narrow belt of ice permanently attached to the coast in polar regions