slob ice

noun

, Chiefly Canadian.

1. sludge ( def 5 ).

slob ice

noun

1. sludgy masses of floating ice

Word History and Origins

Origin of slob ice¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Word History and Origins

Origin of slob ice¹

see slob

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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