Talk:snow line
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Colin M in topic Snow limit
Snow limit[edit]
Looks like this 1881 source attests to a use of the term snow limit for the snow line that is articulated in the existing Wiktionary entry.
I will just leave it here for the Wikitionary wordsmiths far more capable than me to decide if if might ever warrant an entry, or even a mere redirect to the snow line entry. Cheers. N2e (talk) 01:51, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- 1881, Henry Inman, “Another Legend of Pawnee Rock”, in Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail[1], Kansas City, Missouri: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, page 94:
- The night was cold, although midsummer, and we were huddled around a little fire of pine knots more than eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, close to the snow limit.
- Nice find. Seems to have fallen off in popularity around the turn of the century. It seems there are also some recent-ish attestations, though a lot of the supposedly 21st century results on Google Books are reprintings of 19th century works. Colin M (talk) 21:27, 22 February 2021 (UTC)