Stroke – Soil
Stroke
When hounds carry the "DRAG" across a bend at full cry they are said to make "stroke." a
Sand-cone
- A cone of hard ice covered with sand or grit.
Scarpetti
A pointed shoe with hempen soles used in rock climbing.
Scree
Débris lying at the base of a cliff.
Sérac. A tower of ice on a glacier, formed by the intersection of crevasses.
Shoulder
A rounded projection from the mass of a mountain.
Slack
The loose rope between two climbers.
Snout
The foot or lower end of a glacier.
Snow-blindness
- Inflammation of the eyes, caused by the glare of sunshine on snow surface.
Snow-line
The average lowest line of perpetual snow.
Snow-masked
Of a crevasse hidden by snow.
Snow spectacles. - Should be of smoked or neutral-tinted glass, and should be in the form of goggles, the sides being of wire gauze.
Sanglier
Old term for a full-grown boar who had separated himself from the rest of the sounder. Hence also singular.
Soil
The place where a boar has wallowed in the mire. To "take soil" is to fly to water for refuge when hunted. Also used as verb; to wallow in the mire.