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slob ice

noun

, Chiefly Canadian.


slob ice

noun

  1. sludgy masses of floating ice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of slob ice1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slob ice1

see slob
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Example Sentences

On the third day by wonderful luck he gaffed an old seal in the slob ice.

Then us come t' th' slob ice where th' pan 'ad ground together, an' 'twas all thick, an' that was worse'n any.

It was not clear water, but the "slob ice," probably too heavy for a rowboat to pierce, which lay between the pan and the beach.

Here was no slob ice to be forged through at full steam, but a solid mass, like a bar of iron, lying across the path.

It had been an ideal costume to struggle through the slob ice.

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