After four or five miles, I came at last to a small lake that had been carved out by a glacier. Its sloping sides were covered with stones of all shapes and sizes.
A chefs skillet, poêle, has sloping sides and is used for browning and tossing small pieces of food like mushrooms or chicken livers; the long handle makes it easy to toss rather than turn the food.
The next time we heard it, it was very loud and a little closer probably about 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the sloping sides.
Its sloping sides were covered with stones of all shapes and sizes.
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