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brash ice

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noun
  1. small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
Also called brash.
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Historical Examples

  • Reefs buried in frothing surge showed their glistening mantles, and the boat swerved to avoid floating streamers of brash-ice.

    The Home of the Blizzard

    Douglas Mawson

  • The term is also used (but not commonly) for brash-ice still further broken down.

    South!

    Sir Ernest Shackleton

  • Wilson had dug an ice-grave near the hummock, leaving at its edge a heap of brash-ice and snow to fill it.