ground-icen.
1. Ice formed at the bottom of the water; also called anchor-ice and ground-grue.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > at bottom of lake, river, etc.
ground-ice1694
anchor ice1815
bottom ice1816
stock-frost1856
stock-ice1879
frazil1888
1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 40 It looketh likest unto the Ground Ice of the Rivers in our country, or like unto Loaf-sugar.
1839 Douglas in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 7. 187 The frost, fixing on the shallow bottom, forms a ground-ice.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 85 The ground-ice is forced in upon our stern.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 153 This ground-ice is generally found in little masses clinging to stones and weeds.
2. (See quot. 1838.)
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the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > ice in depths of ground
ground-ice1838
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 459/1 The term ground-ice..has been sometimes given to the ice occasionally met with at certain depths in the ground in northern countries.
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