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Definition of Moulin
1. Noun. (geology) A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moulin
1. a vertical cavity in a glacier [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moulin
Literary usage of Moulin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Operas, Their Plots and Their Music by George Putnam Upton (1914)
"L'Attaque du moulin " itself was not successful at first, from musical rather
than political reasons, however, but it gradually overcame Parisian prejudice ..."
2. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1863)
"BY ALFRED TYLOR, ESQ., FGS, FLS A NOTICE of the discovery of human remains in
the celebrated gravel- pit of moulin-Quignon, near Abbeville, ..."
3. Archæology and False Antiquities by Robert Munro (1905)
"But on sawing through a portion of the moulin-Quignon bone it was found that its
interior contained a similar reddish material, totally different from that ..."
4. The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an by John Tyndall (1861)
"The depth of the moulin could not be thus ascertained, but we soon found a second
and still larger one which gave us better data. A stone dropped into this ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"This resulted in the flight of Du moulin; and from this time till his death he was
... His father, Joachim du moulin, a Protestant preacher, after the Third ..."
6. The Standard Operas, Their Plots and Their Music by George Putnam Upton (1914)
"L'Attaque du moulin " itself was not successful at first, from musical rather
than political reasons, however, but it gradually overcame Parisian prejudice ..."
7. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1863)
"BY ALFRED TYLOR, ESQ., FGS, FLS A NOTICE of the discovery of human remains in
the celebrated gravel- pit of moulin-Quignon, near Abbeville, ..."
8. Archæology and False Antiquities by Robert Munro (1905)
"But on sawing through a portion of the moulin-Quignon bone it was found that its
interior contained a similar reddish material, totally different from that ..."
9. The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an by John Tyndall (1861)
"The depth of the moulin could not be thus ascertained, but we soon found a second
and still larger one which gave us better data. A stone dropped into this ..."
10. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"This resulted in the flight of Du moulin; and from this time till his death he was
... His father, Joachim du moulin, a Protestant preacher, after the Third ..."
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