prop. jökull. Also yokul. [Icel. Jökull icicle, hence ice, glacier:—*jakulo-z, dim. of jaki (:—*jakon-) piece of ice: cf. ICKLE, ICICLE.] In reference to Iceland: A mountain permanently covered with snow and ice; a snow-mountain.
1780. Von Troil, Iceland, 233. The fire is generally contained in these mountains covered with ice, or, as they are called in the country, jokuls.
1835. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7), XII. 146/1. The great range of yokuls to the eastward of Mount Hecla.
1862. Lond. Rev., 23 Aug., 163. Will the Alpine Club … console themselves with the jokuls of Iceland?
1890. Hall Caine, Bondman, III. i. Under the feet of the great Varna Jökull.
