ice-up
[ ahys-uhp ]
noun
Origin of ice-up
1First recorded in 1965–70; noun use of verb phrase ice up
Words Nearby ice-up
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How to use ice-up in a sentence
Most noticeable were "hedges" of ice up to six feet in height on either side of the crevasses which ran southward.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonThis was dragged under the ice up into the house, where it afforded a meal of canned green bark.
Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. MillsIt must be in perfection, and should be on ice up to the moment of serving, and must tempt the eye as well as the palate.
The Etiquette of To-day | Edith B. OrdwayAt Edgewood it pushed colossal blocks of ice up the banks into the roadway, piling them end upon end ten feet in air.
Homespun Tales | Kate Douglas WigginI want to get on to that ice up there if I can, and maybe look over on to the other side of the mountains.
Jack the Young Explorer | George Bird Grinnell
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