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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

In the winter he had to travel by dog team over wastes of "slob" ice and huge sheets of smooth "whelping ice."

As they say on the football field, he now had only three yards to gain, and by a mighty effort he drew himself past his living anchor and climbed up on the piece of slob ice.

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.

The long-delayed break came suddenly at last, with a blue sky and a bright, calm morning, but alas! no wind to move the packed-in slob ice.

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

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