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moulin

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mou·lin  (m-l)
n.
A nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface or rock debris falling through a crack in the ice.
[French, mill, moulin, from Old French molin, mill, from Late Latin molnum; see mill1.]
moulin [ˈmuːlɪn]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a vertical shaft in a glacier, maintained by a constant descending stream of water and debris
[from French: a mill]
Moulin (French) [mulɛ̃]
n
(Biographies / Moulin, Jean (1899-1943) M, French, LAW: lawyer, POLITICS: resistance fighter) Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1899-1943, French lawyer and Resistance hero; Chairman of the National Council of the Resistance (1943): tortured to death by the Nazis


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