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
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
In the northern seas it does not melt completely during the summer, and remains of sea ice therefore often enter as component parts into the bay ice formed during the following winter.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
Soon after sailing, we were frozen into a sheet of bay ice for some days.
From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry
A great deal of the bay ice had broken away and drifted out of the Sound, so that by the 20th the ship was only a few hundred yards from Hurrah Beach.
From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron
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