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

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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

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

That night Rae was happy to see flying across the bay ice several dog-sledges with triumphant Mistegan in the lead.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of current.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, 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