> That thick icy crust on snow that you've described in your comment - it has a dedicated word for it in Russian, наст (nast) In Norwegian and Swedish the word

> That thick icy crust on snow that you've described in your comment - it has a dedicated word for it in Russian, наст (nast) In Norwegian and Swedish the word is "skare". If I were to translate it to English, I'd just translate it to crust, but it has a similar etymology to English "shear".