bay ice
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bay ice
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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Swimming, gulls' egging, clamming, spearing eels through the bay ice, are more in his line than schoolbooks.
From Time Magazine Archive
In crossing the bay ice, the animals traveled habitually in long files, one after the other, and yet not altogether in single file.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis
Moreover, within our memory no man has been thus adrift on the bay ice.
From Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
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
Heavy hummocked bay ice, the floes standing 7 or 8 feet out of water, and very deep below.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
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