rubber ice


noun
  1. Canadian. thin ice that shifts, cracks, or groans when crossed on foot.

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How to use rubber ice in a sentence

  • A folded floe and six miles of rubber ice were not sufficiently out of the way to constitute an impressive incident.

    Billy Topsail, M.D. | Norman Duncan
  • It was "India-rubber ice" no longer; it was cracked and brittle to the very shore.

    The Wolf's Long Howl | Stanley Waterloo
  • Now and again he ran nimbly over many yards of rubber ice, which yielded and groaned, but did not break.

  • I had no wish to slide on rubber-ice just for the sake of seeing it bend.

    The Prairie Mother | Arthur Stringer