SNOW LINE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Snow line

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/snoʊ laɪn/ Listen

Snow line

noun

The line on a mountain above which there is perpetual snow and ice.

See images of 'Snow line'

Etymology of 'Snow line'

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Snow line" Quotes from Famous Books

... being green and soft, were white and stringy like flannel as if to protect it from cold, wouldn't it be nice to be able to say at once that it had lived only in the snow, and that some one must have gone all that way up there above the snow line to pick it?" The children, taken aback by this unfair introduction of a floral stranger, were silent. Cressy thoughtfully accepted botany on those possibilities. A week later she laid on the master's desk a limp-looking plant with a stalk like heavy frayed worsted yarn. "It ain't much to look at ...

— Cressy • Bret Harte

... continuous range north was too low to hold snow. In the morning I concluded to go to the summit of that pass and with my glass have an extensive view. Two other boys started with me, and as we moved along the snow line we saw tracks of our runaway Indian in the snow, passing over a low ridge. As we went on up hill our boys began to fall behind, and long before night I could see nothing of them. The ground was quite soft, and I saw many tracks of Indians which put me on my guard. I reached the summit ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

Words linked to "Snow line" : line