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Definition of Sastrugi
1. sastruga [n] - See also: sastruga
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sastrugi
| sastruga sastrugi (current term) sat sat-nav sat-navs sat around sat down sat in sat nav sat navs | sat on it sat on the fence sat out sat still sat up satai |
Literary usage of Sastrugi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"All minor hummocks and ridges of this nature are included under the general term
sastrugi (see Fig. 31). The student may learn much concerning their form ..."
2. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Hugh Robert Mill, Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909)
"All the sastrugi pointed to the south, and the wind blew strongly nearly all ...
Sometimes we marched on hard sastrugi, and at other times we had soft snow ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"sastrugi.—This action went on until the ridges transverse to the wind were merely a
... These corresponded perfectly with the sastrugi of the Tundras as ..."
4. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"The sastrugi are getting more confused, predominant from the SE I wonder what is in
... The sastrugi seemed to increase as we advance and they have changed ..."
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