slob ice

American  

noun

Chiefly Canadian.

1. sludge.

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slob ice British  

noun

1. sludgy masses of floating ice

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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

The long-delayed break came suddenly at last, with a blue sky and a bright, calm morning, but alas! no wind to move the packed-in slob ice.

From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

It did not seem possible, however, for it must be remembered it was not water which lay between me and the land, but slob ice, which a mile or two inside me was very heavy.

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

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

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.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton