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frost that builds against the wind, growing teeth on whatever the fog touches first
means A coating of white ice crystals that forms when supercooled fog or mist freezes onto cold surfaces like branches, wires, and grass.
from From Old English hrīm, 'frost,' a thoroughly Germanic word with cousins in Old Norse hrím and the Dutch rijm. It nearly vanished from everyday English for centuries, kept alive mostly in dialect and poetry, before frost scientists revived it as a precise term. Note the false twin: the 'rime' meaning rhyme is an unrelated borrowing from Old French — same spelling, entirely different ancestry.
- how it forms
- supercooled fog freezing instantly on contact
- grows windward
- feathers point into the wind, not away
- old meaning
- originally just meant hoarfrost in Old English
- aircraft hazard
- can ice wings and stall planes midair
- summit beards
- coats mountain peaks in white spiked crystals