‖ gla{cced}on
(glasɔ̃)
Also glacon.
[Fr.]
A medium-sized ice-floe (see quots.).
| 1933 Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXI. 60 Drift-ice was pretty thick and we were constantly under helm to avoid the ‘pans’, as the seamen and fishermen call them, or ‘glacons’, which, I believe is the scientific term. 1963 D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation iv. 85 ‘Glacons’, smaller than 650 feet [in diameter]. |