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Noun: glacier mill
  1. A chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation
    "the icy river plunged, roaring, into the glacier mill's blue depths";
    - moulin

Type of: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough

Encyclopedia: Glacier mill