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What does the word iceberg literally mean?

Lettuce tell you ;) It is a large piece of ice that has broken off a glacier where only a portion of the piece is able to be seen above water.

I shall use it in the sentence:

The iceberg struck the Titantic sinking it and killing most aboard!
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