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

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slob ice

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

Then us come t' th' slob ice where th' pan 'ad ground together, an' 'twas all thick, an' that was worse'n any.

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

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

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

On the third day by wonderful luck he gaffed an old seal in the slob ice.

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