bay ice

American  

noun

Oceanography.

1. smooth sea ice formed in the sheltered waters of an Arctic or Antarctic bay.

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Etymology

Origin of bay ice

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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bay ice

Swimming, gulls' egging, clamming, spearing eels through the bay ice, are more in his line than schoolbooks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there was nothing of the sort; the bay ice had all been ground up; there was nothing save the great green-sided, snow-topped bergs.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

After piercing a small fringe of thin ice at the edge of the fast floe the ship's stem struck heavily on hard bay ice about a mile and a half from the shore.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

On days when there was a fair breeze it was great fun sailing an old sledge over the bay ice.

From Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North by Wallace, Dillon

The Maid of the North, it will be understood, lay in bay ice, and all the ice to the south of her was bay ice.

From Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale by Wallace, Dillon