ground-mist

English

Noun

ground-mist (countable and uncountable, plural ground-mists)

1. Alternative form of groundmist
   • 2010, Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things, page 8:

     To be first on the road, Up with the ground-mists and pheasants.

   • 2011, Derek Robinson, Hornet's Sting:

     Two and a half miles below, smoke from the artillery bombardment drifted like dirty ground-mist, speckled with soft, small flashes.

   • 2012, Fritz Leiber, Swords of Lankhmar:

     His situation was that of a man who stands on a patch of ground with mountains sharp-etched all around, but the middle distance hidden by a white sea of ground-mist.

   • 2014, Brereton Greenhous, James McWilliams, R. James Steel, The Torch We Throw:

     At 4:00 a.m., soon after the ground-mist had materialized, the 1st Australian Division commenced its advance with the 8th Victorian Battalion leading on the right, and assorted companies from the 10th, 11th, and 12th battalions leading the 3rd Brigade on the left.