stoss

¹ American  

[stohs, shtohs] / stoʊs, ʃtoʊs /

adjective

1. Geology. noting or pertaining to the side, as of a hill or dale, that receives or has received the thrust of a glacier or other impulse.

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Stoss ² American  

[shtohs] / ʃtoʊs /

noun

1. Veit c1440–1533, German sculptor and painter.

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Stoss ¹ British  

/ ʃtoːs /

noun

1. Viet (faɪət). ?1445–1533, German Gothic sculptor and woodcarver. His masterpiece is the high altar in the Church of St Mary, Cracow (1477–89)

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stoss ² British  

/ stɒs, ʃtoːs /

adjective

1. (of the side of a hill, crag, etc) facing the onward flow of a glacier or the direction in which a former glacier flowed

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Etymology

Origin of stoss

1875–80; < German: thrust, push

Example Sentences

Dunes are unstable features and move as the sand erodes from the stoss side and continues to drop down the leeward side covering previous stoss and slip-face layers and creating the cross-beds.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

If you're migrating faster than you're accumulating, you just preserve the lee side because you're eroding on that stoss side.

From BBC • May 8, 2013

Its whole surface, not its stoss side only, has been smoothed and polished by the ice.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

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.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

Cavities, on the other hand, have their edges worn on the lee side and left sharp upon the stoss.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon