Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Facing the direction from which a glacier moves. Used of a rock or slope in its path.
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- adjective geology Facing towards the advancing flow of a
glacier .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Material on the gently sloping stoss-side of these features rolls and jumps up the slope under the influence of water flow.
Fluvial landforms 2008
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Hills overridden by an ice sheet often have similarly rounded contours on the stoss side, while on the lee side they may be craggy, either because of plucking or because here they have been less worn from their initial profile.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The prominences left between the hollows due to plucking are commonly ground down and rounded on the stoss side, -- the side from which the ice advances, -- and sometimes on the opposite, the lee side, as well.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Cavities, on the other hand, have their edges worn on the lee side and left sharp upon the stoss.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Flint nodules or other small prominences in the bed rock are found more worn on the stoss than on the lee side, where indeed they may have a low cone of rock protected by them from abrasion.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The principal phenomena are rounded hummocks of rock on the skirts of the hills, and in the middle of the valleys; and as these hummocks, whatever may be the direction of the valleys, invariably present a smoothed side up, and an abrupt side downwards (_stoss-seite_ and _lee-seite_ of the Scandinavian geologists), it becomes certain that the glaciers proceeding from the mountains at the upper extremities were local to the several valleys.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 Various 1841
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Plans for the stoss birthday celebration, like the plans to inaugurate Saint Lorenz as Germany’s national cathedral, were put on hold as the war continued and bomber streams darkened the skies over the city.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Plans for the stoss birthday celebration, like the plans to inaugurate Saint Lorenz as Germany’s national cathedral, were put on hold as the war continued and bomber streams darkened the skies over the city.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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#30 maybe you're right, but it's just funny he forgot to record that half when he just dominated candyman mid with the stoss.
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