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ice man

British  

noun

  1. a man who sells or delivers ice

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Scots took to the "wee ice man"; today the game venerates him.

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 12, 2018

The cottage we rented didn’t have a refrigerator; there was an ice man who delivered blocks of ice for the chest.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

“I turned into this ice man in a way,” he says.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2017

“We didn’t have a refrigerator—the ice man would come and he’d put ice in the ice box,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2016

By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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