slob ice

American  

noun

Chiefly Canadian.

1. sludge.

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slob ice British  

noun

1. sludgy masses of floating ice

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Etymology

Origin of slob ice

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton

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

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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

From Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir