slob ice

American  

noun

Chiefly Canadian.

1. sludge.

---

slob ice British  

noun

1. sludgy masses of floating ice

---

Etymology

Origin of slob ice

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In the winter he had to travel by dog team over wastes of "slob" ice and huge sheets of smooth "whelping ice."

From Time Magazine Archive

Along his line I hauled myself, using him as a kind of bow anchor—and I soon lay, with my dogs around me, on the little island of slob ice.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

I remember once in Nain the slob ice had already made ballicaters and the biting cold of winter so far north had set in with all its vigour.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

It took an hour to break up the "slob" ice which had cemented about the ship.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

There was only a yard or so more when I had passed my living anchor, and soon I lay with my dogs around me on the little piece of slob ice.

From Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir