slob ice

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noun Chiefly Canadian.

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Origin of slob ice

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby slob ice

Sloane Ranger, slob, slobber, slobbery, slobby, slob ice, Slocum, sloe, sloe-eyed, sloe gin, slog

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How to use slob ice in a sentence

On the third day by wonderful luck he gaffed an old seal in the slob ice.
A Labrador Doctor|Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Then us come t' th' slob ice where th' pan 'ad ground together, an' 'twas all thick, an' that was worse'n any.
Adrift on an Ice-Pan|Wilfred T. Grenfell
It was not clear water, but the "slob ice," probably too heavy for a rowboat to pierce, which lay between the pan and the beach.
Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North|Fullerton Waldo
Here was no slob ice to be forged through at full steam, but a solid mass, like a bar of iron, lying across the path.
The Adventures of Billy Topsail|Norman Duncan

It had been an ideal costume to struggle through the slob ice.
Adrift on an Ice-Pan|Wilfred T. Grenfell

British Dictionary definitions for slob ice

slob ice

noun

Canadian sludgy masses of floating ice

Word Origin for slob ice

see slob

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