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单词 ice
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icen.

Brit. /ʌɪs/, U.S. /aɪs/
Forms: early Old English hiis, early Old English–early Middle English iis, Old English his (rare), Old English iss (rare), Old English–Middle English is, Old English (in compounds)–Middle English ys, Middle English hys, Middle English hyse, Middle English hyys, Middle English ijs, Middle English iys, Middle English iyse, Middle English yes, Middle English yhs, Middle English yis, Middle English yise, Middle English ysse, Middle English ysz, Middle English yys, Middle English–1500s isse, Middle English–1600s ise, Middle English–1600s yce, Middle English–1600s yse, Middle English– ice; Scottish pre-1700 ies, pre-1700 ische, pre-1700 iyce, pre-1700 iyse, pre-1700 iyss, pre-1700 yce, pre-1700 yis, pre-1700 yse, pre-1700 1700s– ice, pre-1700 1800s ise.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian īs (Frisian iis), Middle Dutch īs, ijs (Dutch ijs), Old Saxon īs (Middle Low German īs), Old High German īs (Middle High German īs, German Eis), Old Icelandic íss, Old Swedish, Swedish is, Old Danish, Danish is; further etymology uncertain, perhaps ultimately related to Lithuanian †ynis, Old Church Slavonic inii, inije, Russian inej hoar frost, and perhaps also to Avestan isauu- frost, ice.With sense 4a compare French glace (1680 or earlier in this sense), specific use of glace ice (see glace n.1), and compare also slightly earlier ice v. 2 and discussion at that entry. With sense 4b compare French glace (1669 denoting a type of sorbet), and also earlier ice cream n., iced cream n. at iced adj. Compounds.
1.
a. Frozen water; water made solid by cooling to a low temperature, either naturally (by weather or climate) or artificially (as by refrigeration).Ice is a brittle, transparent crystalline material, colourless or (in bulk) pale blue in colour. It is slightly less dense than liquid water, on which it will float. Ordinary ice has an open crystal structure (in the hexagonal crystal system) based on six-membered rings of oxygen atoms, with each oxygen tetrahedrally surrounded by four others and linked to them by hydrogen bonds.island of ice, mountain of ice; black, drift-, land, needle, pack, rime, sea ice, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun]
iceeOE
crystalOE
frosta1400
glacea1400
water-ice1861
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > frozen condition > frozen water or ice
iceeOE
eOE Metres of Boethius (2009) xxviii. 60 Hwa wundrað þæs..hwi þæt is mæge weorðan of wætere?
OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) iv. 92 Nahte þon læsse bið þæs cyles... On anes eagan byrhtme bið eall hellwarena mægen þurh his anes [sc. Satan's] fnæst geworden to ise.
OE Beowulf (2008) 1608 Hit eal gemealt ise gelicost.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 43 Innan þan sea weren vii bittere uþe; þe forme wes swnan [perh. read snaw], þat oðer is.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 97 Ðe firmament... Of watres froren, of yses wal, Ðis middelwerld it luket al. May no fir get melten ðat ys.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 6644 It [sc. a burning mountain] suld frese and turne al in-til yse þar [sc. in hell].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 258 Ice, glacies.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBviiv All bathed in rayne & frosen with yce, and nere storuen for colde.
1556 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. 279 It was as much as we could doe to keepe our shippe aloofe from one heape of ice, and beare roomer from another.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 5v Isidore saith, that it [sc. Cristall] is nothing else then a congeled Ise.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 128 Colder then yce.
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 154 He always found the ice fresh that floated upon the sea-water.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 578 Vast fragments of ice called Gletschers.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 180 Ice, which is water in another state, is very elastic.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 136 Thermometers..having two points marked upon their stems corresponding to the melting temperature of ice and the boiling temperature of pure water.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 8/1 We gave the other day some figures as to the phenomenal consumption of ice during this season.
1943 Life 18 Jan. 35 The roads, trees, telephone and electric wires glistened under beautiful coats of bright ice.
1960 O. Manning Great Fortune ii. xii. 145 Soon even moving water would be stilled to ice and the garden silent until spring.
1992 enRoute (Air Canada) July 66/2 Past the tank of deep-sea lobster, freshly caught fish nestle in a bed of crushed ice.
2006 E. Linden Winds of Change xv. 184 As ice melted during the Holocene, sea level steadily rose, reaching its present level about 5000 years ago.
†b. In plural. A mass or piece of ice. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > piece
iceseOE
rand1633
ice rock1704
ice pan1842
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xiii. 436 Ymb hiene flowendum þæm sticcum halfbrocenra iisa [L. semifractarum crustis glacierum].
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Dan. iii. 70 Yces and snowis [L. glacies et nives], blesse ȝe the Lord.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 94 We..stood all on the decks to watch the Ices.
1729 W. Mackintosh Ess. on Inclosing Scotl. 273 Whether the Ices, covering these Abysses, keeps them [sc. fish] undisturbed from the Motion and Agitation so great Storms occasion.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. p. xxviii We shall treat..of the sources of the Atlantic, of it's ices,..of it's currents, of it's tides.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 219 These ices or glaciers, evidently give rise to the numerous floating bergs.
1875 Wonders Physical World ii. iii. 246 Sometimes these ices offered but a level uniform sheet.
c. Chemistry. With following letter(s): any of a series of crystallized forms of water with modified structures, existing under different (often extreme) conditions of pressure and temperature, as ice II, ice III, etc. ice I n. (more fully ice Ih) the ordinary (hexagonal) form of ice, existing under normal conditions. [After German Eis I, Eis II, Eis III (G. Tammann 1900, in Ann. der Physik 2 1).]
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1900 Science 22 June 994/2 Counting these three kinds of ice, five forms of water are now known, namely, vapor, liquid, ice I. (common ice), ice II., and ice III.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxii. 248 Under very high pressures, exceeding 2000 atmospheres, water freezes to an ice which is denser than the liquid. This dense ice, when cooled to the temperature of liquid air, can be preserved even when the pressure is removed; it is then found to sink in liquid air whilst ordinary light ice floats.
1968 E. Whalley et al. in Jrnl. Chem. Physics 48 2365/1 The new phase is sufficiently different from ice III to warrant a new name, and the designation ‘ice IX’ is proposed.
1970 H. S. Frank in Science 14 Aug. 640/3 Strictly speaking, this should now be called Ice Ih, to distinguish it from the cubic material (Ice Ic) which can be formed at low temperatures and from Ices II through VIII which exist in various temperature-pressure ranges.
1988 J. McPhee Los Angeles Against Mountains in Control of Nature (1989) 230 Kamb..discovered, among other things, the structures of the high-pressure forms of ice: ice II through ice IX.
1999 Nature 27 May 333/1 An analogous system..is a magnet with the pyrochlore structure—termed ‘spin ice’—where spin orientation plays a similar role to that of the hydrogen position in ice Ih.
d. dry ice: see dry adj. and adv. Compounds 3.
e. Astronomy. Frequently in plural. In singular often with modifying word specifying a substance, as ammonia ice, methane ice, etc. Any of various frozen or solidified forms of substances (including water) which are gaseous or volatile under normal conditions; esp. any of such materials present in the nuclei of comets or in planetoids and other celestial objects.In some cases referring to clathrates containing gas molecules trapped in the crystal lattice of ice.
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1949 F. L. Whipple in Astron. Jrnl. 54 179/2 The nucleus [of a comet] is visualized as a conglomerate of ices and meteoric materials... Possibilities of the ices are H2O, NH3, CH4, CO2 or CO, C2N2.
1969 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 79 191 Small terrestrial planets..are assumed to have been born cold from small solid masses of lithophilic (rock-forming) matter, either metallic or stony, varying in dimensions from dust grains to sizeable meteorites, and ‘ices’, trapping between them a certain amount of gas.
1982 New Scientist 21 Oct. 158/3 A comet is basically a ‘dirty snowball’ of rock fragments mixed with frozen ices of water, ammonia and methane.
1990 Sciences Nov. 36/2 About a five-hundredth as massive as the earth and covered with reddish methane ice, Pluto has little in common with the earth.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Sept. 55/1 The sun..rapidly warmed up the comet's ices, causing dust and gas to blow off the comet's surface in a vaporous halo, or ‘coma’.
2007 Astron. & Geophysics Feb. 26/2 The ices are made up of molecules formed in situ (e.g. H2O), accreted directly from the gas (e.g. CO), or processed in some way within the ice (e.g. the formation of CO2 and CH3OH from CO).
2.
a. With the. A sheet or layer of ice on a pond, river, sea, etc.; the frozen surface of a body of water. Also with descriptive adjective.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > frozen surface of body of water
iceeOE
fast ice1609
main ice1853
shelf ice1910
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. xi. 110 Þa wæs Donua seo ea [swa] swiþe oferfroren, þæt hie getruwedon þæt hie ofer þæm ise faran mehten.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9511 Me miȝte boþe ride & go In temese vpe þe yse.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 65 (MED) Þai cary þaire vitailes with þam apon þe ysz with sleddes.
a1500 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 3 Ther was ane fervent froste..that menne myght goo overe the yise.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 619 Or euir tha wist on Forres loch tha ran, Wnder the ische syne drownit thair ilkman.
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 436 His wijf walked him wiþ..Barfote on þe bare ijs.
1694 tr. F. Martens in Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 38 In the Spring the Whales are in..the West-Ice, as they call it.
1748 D. Hume Let. 16 Mar. (1932) I. 117 Four Men push you along in this Boat very cleverly, as long as the Ice will bear you.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 612/1 It [sc. the great seal] breeds about the month of March, and brings forth a single young on the ice.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 266 Separation between the east or whaling, and west or sealing ice of the fishers.
1850 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 8) vii. 99 Captain Cook was of opinion that the ice of the antarctic predominated over that of the arctic region.
1904 St. Nicholas May 670/2 One thing that was great fun that we did was to put the dory on a sled and pull it along on the ice.
1953 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. 46 138/2 The children maintain their own open air hockey rink on the ice of Green River.
2006 Believer Sept. 14/3 There's a big lake, which freezes in winter; people build a shantytown on the ice and go fishing for bass and cisco.
b. thin ice: ice covering a pond, lake, etc., in a thin layer or sheet, which is liable to give away when walked on. Frequently figurative, of treacherous or perilous circumstances. See also on thin ice at Phrases 4 and see to skate on thin ice at skate v. 1c(a), to tread on thin ice at tread v. 3b.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > thin
thin ice1625
skim1807
black ice1827
tickly-benders1853
shell ice1875
cat-ice1884
rubber ice1895
sheet icec1900
skim ice1938
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. x. vii. 1882 The eighth day it began to freeze, and there was thin Ice ouer the sound.
1792 J. Curry Pop. Observ. Death from Drowning App. 109 Even thin ice will support a very considerable weight, provided it be made to bear upon a large surface.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 310 (note) Mill-dolling, consists in breaking a passage through thin ice..by a sort of ram, let fall from the bowsprit.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxii. 281 ‘How'd you get your breakfast so early on the boat?’ It was kinder thin ice, but I says: ‘The captain see me standing around.’
1892 Ouida in Fortn. Rev. 52 785 The incessant, breathless round of intermingled sport and pleasure danced on the thin ice of debt.
1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston V. iii. 356 Even Punch regaled its readers with a princely figure of slightly sinister aspect skating perilously on the thin ice of foreign affairs.
1964 H. H. Smith Shelter Bay 123 But even thin ice—what we call sheet ice, could cause us plenty of trouble.
2002 Times 16 July 31/2 On one occasion as they traversed the Arctic ice flow Fiennes narrowly escaped death when his snowmobile crashed through thin ice and sank.
c. (Pieces of) ice placed in a drink, or into which a bottle or other container is placed, to cool the contents.
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the world > food and drink > drink > mixers or flavourings > [noun] > ice
ice1637
ice cube1922
rock1946
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus iii. sig. E2 Drinks his wine in ice.
1671 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy (new ed.) 231 The fresh waters with Ice, which they [sc. the Spanish] so much drink of in summer.
1673 S'too him Bayes 107 A bottle of Wine in Ice.
1722 Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) VIII. ii. 11 They are extremely fond of cold Liquors, and love to drink with Ice.
1759 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry (ed. 2) IV. lxxii. 202 His wine in ice does not equal the coolness of the fresh stream.
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines xiv. 316 Before drinking, the wine should be kept an hour in ice.
1863 T. G. Shaw Wine vii. 241 The remedy is to put it in a cold cellar, and, before drinking it, to place it for an hour in ice, leaving the cork out.
a1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 61 Where's a cocktail shaker, Ben, here's plenty of cracked ice.
1978 R. B. Parker Judas Goat xii. 77 Hawk had filled the sink with ice and put..another bottle of Taittinger champagne in to chill.
1996 New Idea June 64/3 We had a squat glass of ginger wine, choked with ice—the perfect antidote for the sort of day it had been.
d. Sport. The sheet of (natural or man-made) ice that forms the surface of a skating rink, or on which ice hockey, curling, etc., is played.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > rink
ice1811
ice rink1848
rink1848
skating-rink1867
glaciarium1878
1811 J. Ramsay Acct. Game Curling 4 A..witter is a small hole made in the ice, round which two circles of different diameters are drawn.
1902 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 468/1 Outside of the art of figure skating, but well within the realm of remarkable performers on the ice, is Walter Monroe of Toronto.
1911 R. E. Knowles Singer of Kootenay 281 The ice was capital—for the floor was a wooden one and twenty-four hours' frost had been quite enough.
1955 Shawinigan Standard 12 Jan. 6/4 The Shawinigan Cataracts..are still undefeated by Chicoutimi on Shawinigan ice.
1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 33/1 That marked the first regulation loss on home ice this season for the Gulls.
2007 M. Gosnell Ice xxiv. 357 When ice is fast, a player needs to throw his rock with less force than when ice is slow, in order to reach the target.
3. figurative. In allusion to the cold, brittle, slippery, or otherwise treacherous nature of ice (see also Phrases 4); also indicating a cold-hearted temperament or one completely devoid of warmth.
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?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 33 Beware, I rede; thow stondest on the yce.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxii. 22 I seik the watter hett In vndir the cauld yce.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. ii. 23 Tut, tut, thou art all yce . View more context for this quotation
1613 J. Marston & W. Barksted Insatiate Countesse iii. i. sig. F2v I stand on firme ground now, before on Ice.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cxxix, in Poems (1878) IV. 33 Soe Spirits bound vp in the Ice of feare Are thawed by Nobler Passions shineing there.
1712 G. Granville Poems 104 Whom worldly Luxury and Pomps allure, They tread on Ice, and find no Footing sure.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. iv. 171 The bright Eyes of our Heroe thawed all her Ice in a Moment. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 170 Those who knew him well..were aware that under all this ice a fierce fire was constantly burning.
1886 Tid-bits 24 July 378/1 Her heart was ice. This beautiful being, who could pity the squire's mishap, had no mercy upon the noble knights whose hearts she had pierced by her glances.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. ii. 343 The idea of her never leaves me quiet, and by coming into this room she drives me on to the ice.
2010 M. McCarty Ranger xxiii Anna wanted him to go... She told herself this was what she wanted. But when he'd turned his back on her and walked away, the ice in her heart started to crack.
4.
a. A coating of sugar icing on a cake or other confection. Cf. icing n. Now chiefly regional.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > icing sugar
ice?1600
frosting1756
icing sugar1852
?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. B8v Yced cleane ouer with a white yce.
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 264 Let your Cake stand therein two hours and a half, before you Ice it; and afterwards only to harden the Ice.
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. B4 Make Ice with the White of an Egg, powder'd Sugar, Orange, or Lemon Flowers.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at March pane You may also ice them..and the Ice is to be bak'd with the Oven-lid.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Ice,..concreted sugar.
1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father II. v. 61 How dreadfully hard the ice on the wedding cake was, so that when Annaple tried to cut it the knife slipped.
1990 J. Faley Up oor Close 132 The wee square Albert cake with ice on it, fruit cake.
b. A frozen confection eaten as a dessert or refreshment; (chiefly British) an ice cream, ice lolly, or portion of water ice; (North American) a frozen mixture of fruit juice or of flavoured water and sugar.choc-, Neapolitan, strawberry, water-ice, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun]
ice1766
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Oct. (1965) I. 275 The company are entertain'd with ice in several forms, Winter and Summer.]
1766 S. Sharp Lett. from Italy l. 267 Regaling themselves, according to their fashion, with ices, sweet-meats, and lemonades.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 109 He went out and ate ices at a pastry-cook's shop.
1850 T. Morton & J. M. Morton All that Glitters ii Toby, take that load of pine apple ice into the ball-room, and present an ice to each lady.
1885 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1886) viii. 134 He took her to Giacosa's and treated her to ices.
1918 A. Bennett Roll-call i. viii. 169 I should like a strawberry ice, and a lemon-squash.
1975 I. McEwan First Love, Last Rites (1976) 68 I gave her enough money to buy ices for both of us.
2001 M. Pryce Aberystwyth Mon Amour vi. 78 Calamity and I picked up the ices and walked over to the railings.
2011 P. Spiegelman Thick as Thieves xi. 83 His mother would hold his hand through the crowds, and buy him a lemon ice.
5.
†a. An imperfection (in a jewel) resembling the appearance of ice. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] > flaw
ice1605
feather1866
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Vv2 Iewellers..if there be a graine, or a cloude, or an ise which may be ground forth, without taking to much of the stone, they help it. View more context for this quotation
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 9 Those Jewels were Paragon, without Flaw, Hair, Ice, or Cloud.
b. Chiefly with distinguishing word. = ice pigeon n. (b) at Compounds 8. Now rare.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types
porcelainc1530
turn-pate1611
light horseman1661
runt1661
smiter1668
helmet1676
mammet1678
Cortbeck1688
turbit1688
turner1688
dragoon1725
finicking1725
Leghorn1725
nun1725
owl1725
petit1725
trumpeter1725
horseman1735
Mahomet1735
barbel1736
turn-tail1736
frill-back1765
blue rock1825
beard1826
ice pigeon1829
toy1831
black1839
skinnum1839
splash1851
whole-feather1851
spangle1854
swallow1854
shield1855
stork pigeon1855
Swabian1855
yellow1855
archangel1867
dragon1867
starling1867
magpie1868
smerle1869
bluette1870
cumulet1876
oriental1876
spot fairy1876
turbiteen1876
blondinette1879
hyacinth1879
Modena pigeon1879
silver-dun1879
silverette1879
silver-mealy1879
swift pigeon1879
Victoria1879
visor1879
ice1881
swallow pigeon1881
velvet fairy1881
priesta1889
frill1890
1881 J. C. Lyell Fancy Pigeons 81 The smooth-legged chequered or spangled ones are known in this country as Ural ice, while the rough-legged spangled birds are called Siberian ice.
1912 Premium List, Rules & Regulations Calif. State Fair (Calif. State Agric. Soc.) 51 Classification will be provided for all standard varieties not mentioned above, such as Archangels, Antwerps, Starlings, Tipplers, Ice, [etc.].
1941 W. M. Levi Pigeon ii. 60/2 Clean-legged Ices are divided into the following color varieties.
6. slang.
a. Originally U.S. Money improperly obtained or expended; spec. bribe or protection money.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe
gift1382
handy-dandyc1390
pricec1400
bud1436
bribe?a1439
golden (also silver) keyc1450
fee1549
golden shower1589
oil of angels1592
sugar-plum1608
bribera1616
palm oil1625
greasinga1661
sop1665
sweetbreada1670
vail1687
douceur1739
sweetener1741
bonus1759
buckshee1773
smear-gelt1785
grease1823
boodle?1856
soap1860
ice1887
palm-grease1897
poultice1902
fix1929
dropsy1930
pay-off1930
drop1931
oil1935
squeeze-pidgin1946
sling1948
bung1958
back-hander1960
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > protection money
black rent1423
blackmail1530
protection money1703
protection rent1860
Danegeld1911
juice1935
ice1951
1887 G. H. Devol Forty Years Gambler on Mississippi 36 I came up with the ice and bet $250 before the draw.
1907 J. Corbin Cave Man xxxvi. 321 I'll advance you a few hundred on your ice bill.
1927 Theatre Mag. Sept. 30/2 Thousands of tickets for special attractions in the large movie houses are sold over the box-office counter to speculators by the treasurers of the houses, their charge, or ‘ice’, running to as much as £1 a ticket on the ‘sell-outs’.
1951 Economist 29 Sept. 747 Gross..who had confessed to paying this sum in ‘ice’ for the protection that made it possible for him to earn $100,000 a year.
1960 Observer 30 Oct. 1/17 ‘Ice’..is the money from the sale of hot tickets..and enables..box office clerks to buy themselves Cadillacs.
1971 W. Burk & T. Thackrey Thief 104 To operate in L.A. a book had to be putting out some pretty heavy ice to the law.
1994 N.Y. Times e17 Mr. Koppell's job is to find out where all those tickets go, and how they get there. Few in the theater doubt that ice plays a major role.
2006 K. Segrave Ticket Scalping 191 Witnesses testified that all brokers paid ice for blocks of seats and could not stay in business unless they made those payments.
b. Originally U.S. Criminals' slang. Diamonds; (also) jewellery, jewels.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > collectively
ice1896
1896 G. Ade Artie xv. 134 I guess you ain't goin' to find no cracked ice in the chairs.
1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 26 Her in evenin' clothes and a bunch of ice on her hands.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith ix. 184 Diamonds, Eddie. A necklace... Some of the best ice I've saw in years.
1936 J. G. Brandon Pawnshop Murder i. 2 The glitter of stolen ‘ice’ or other jewels spread out upon the table.
1959 Listener 23 Apr. 706/2 ‘Shiners’ and ‘ice’ to the light-fingered boys, the diamond is known to the gemmologist as the hardest..of all minerals.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom i. 11 Yes, someone got away with her bit of ice all right.
1980 L. Andress Caper 235 You didn't expect Brandenberg and Sons to admit they were holding two mil in stolen ice, did you?
1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xiv. 99 If the wrong cop finds these punks with the diamond before we do, he'll trace the ice to the shvartze.
2001 N.Y. Times 29 June b1/2 ‘When I smile, all I want people to see is gold and ice, nothing but gold and ice,’ Ms. Williams said..running her fingers over the two upper teeth she intends to cover with 14-karat gold and diamond-studded caps.
2005 Bliss July 18/1 £825,000[:] Price of the ice B wore to a fashion awards show!
c. Originally U.S. A potent crystalline form of the drug methamphetamine, smoked (illegally) as a stimulant.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > stimulant drug(s) > specific stimulant drugs
amyl nitrite1881
Methedrine1939
Dexedrine1942
benzylpiperazine1947
dexamphetamine1949
dextro-amphetamine1949
methamphetamine1949
Drinamyl1950
benny1955
dexie1956
purple heart1961
crystal1964
French blue1964
meth1966
speed1967
splash1967
purple1968
crank1969
crystal meth1969
crystal methamphetamine1970
dex1984
ice1989
BZP1997
tik2004
1989 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 31 Aug. Ice, a potent new form of the drug known as speed with a high that lasts 12 to 24 hours, is on the streets in Hawaii and is threatening to invade major West Coast ports.
1989 N.Y. Times 23 Sept. 23/4 Ice, a super-‘speed’, is spreading through California.
1989 Daily Tel. 3 Oct. 11/1 Like those smoking crack, ice users initially suffer weight loss and insomnia because of the stimulation effects.
1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 91/1 ‘However shit your life is, ice, at first, makes things better..’ is how one addict of the new American horror drug ice, describes its effects.
2005 W. Wall This is Country 89 Max's brother... was the first person ever heard of in our estate that smoked ice... Crystal meth gives me dreams, he used to say.

Phrases

P1. In similative phrases, as (as) cold (also cool, etc.) as ice.
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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 515 (MED) Y wex cold as ise [c1475 Caius colder than the yys].
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxi. sig. h3v In the same place sourde and sprynge other [fountains] that ben as colde as yce.
1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 51 Her loue so hot as fire, is now so colde as Yce.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 137 Be thou as chaste as yce, as pure as snowe, Thou shalt not scape calumny.
1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries iv. 209 My people had made a Cellar in the earth, where the wine and the water was as cool as ice.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem ii. 12 His Feet cold as Ice, his Breath hot as a Furnace.
1790 W. Beckford Descr. Acct. Jamaica I. 233 The waters..are as pellucid as crystal, and as cool as ice.
1838 J. H. St. Aubyn Elopement II. viii. 72 Lord Stormont was..quite an Englishman,—quiet, stately, and cold as ice.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 107 My heart as cold as ice, and jumping up and down as scarily as a rabbit's.
1911 ‘H. Payson’ Boy Scouts on Range i. 16 They rose from the table, but Rob, still inwardly raging but outwardly cool as ice, stopped them.
1976 M. H. Kingston Woman Warrior 193 I heard one line sung out into the night air in a woman's voice high and clear as ice.
1988 E. Blyton Mountain of Adventure (rev. ed.) vii. 48 A spring gushed out beside the small wooded patch, as cold as ice.
2012 F. Ray With just One Kiss xvii. 249 Cicely's smile was as cold as ice.
P2. to break the ice [after post-classical Latin scindere glaciem (1528 in Erasmus)] .
a. To make a beginning in an undertaking or enterprise, esp. in the face of difficulty or resistance (cf. to break ground and icebreaker n.); to prepare the way for others (cf. quot. 1590); (also in literal contexts) to break the frozen surface of a river, lake, etc., in order to make a passage for boats, etc. (also with vessel as subject).
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > make a beginning in some enterprise
beginc1200
to break the ice?1553
to break (the) ground1709
to set (or start) the ball rolling1770
to strike the first blow1849
?1553–77 Life Fisher (Harl. 6382) (1921) 40 This reuerend father..chaunced..to be one of the first that brake the yse, and [showed]..the inconvenience that followed [the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon].
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes Epil. The authour therefore in aduenturing to breake the yse to make the passage easie for his countrymen, failing sometimes of the fourd, and falling into the pit, may seeme worthie to be pitied.
1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife sig. B It is my dutie to begin I know, And I will breake this Ice of curtesie. You are welcome home sir.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 122 The Oratour..At last broke silence, and the Ice.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 7. ⁋6 The Ice being broke, the Sound is again open for the Ships.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 34 So! the ice is broke, and a..civil beginning too!
1871 A. Trollope Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite xvii. 227 She thought that she had broken the ice, and that her father would by degrees become accustomed to her plan.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting xii. 174 The boat should then be ‘rocked’ continually to break the ice as it goes.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 174 The hens broke the ice, you might say, for they got themselves loose from the gig of the Netherhill folk and started a wild flutter and chirawk everywhere, anywhere out of Blawearie.
1980 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (Nexis) 24 Jan. Specially equipped boats are breaking the ice.
1993 Echoes 25 Dec. 20/2 Another new label breaking the ice this week is Weekend Records who impress with..the spunky..lunacy of Protect and Survive.
b. To break through cold reserve or stiffness, esp. facilitating conversation or social ease.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)] > throw off coldness or reserve > break through reserve or stiffness
to break the ice1795
1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales II. l. 458 Notwithstanding..,there is an air of distance, reserve, and even coldness, they are all.., replete with an anxious desire to break the ice.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xxxviii. 74 And your cold people are beyond all price, When once you have broken their confounded ice.
1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 226 The ice being thus broken, Ching Dolai put aside the reserve habitual to all Celestials.
1936 M. R. Anand Coolie ii. 54 He was mightily pleased with himself that he had broken the ice, although he could not muster the courage to say anything more and ask him to tea.
1979 M. Leigh Abigail's Party i, in Abigail's Party & Goose-pimples (1983) 13 Angela : That'd be really nice, 'cos I want to meet the neighbours. Beverly : Yeah, just say hello, Ang, and break the ice.
2001 Brisbane News 14 Nov. 7/2 The ice broken relatively quickly, we get down to some serious business—ordering lunch.
P3. on ice.
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(a) placed on top of ice or in a container filled with ice to keep cold; chiefly in to put (also serve, keep, etc.) on ice: to chill or cool (food or a bottle of wine, beer, etc.) by placing on top of ice, or in a container filled with ice; cf. sense 2c.
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1818 L. E. Ude Fr. Cook (ed. 5) 333 Jellies..must be worked cold, and be put on ice very promptly.
1892 Cosmopolitan July 298/1 Champagne is frequently on the doctor's prescription.., though served neither on ice nor by the small bottle.
1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 27/2 She bought the best porterhouse steak she could find and put it on ice.
1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 376 Moonlight and roses, champagne on ice.
2009 A. D. Livingston Freshwater Fish Cookbk. 167/1 If the fish are kept on ice, the gutting can wait for a day or two.
(b) Originally U.S. Of a drink: served with ice.
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1881 N.Y. Times 22 Mar. 5/5 (advt.) Nothing can compare with Hub Punch on ice.
1905 Ice & Refrigeration July 44/2 The plant was inspected by some twenty members of the Coal Exchange.., who were served by Mr. Doe with punch on ice.
1956 San Antonio (Texas) Express & News 5 Feb. (For You & Family section) 2 e/5 A highball..will fill up the drinker more quickly than a potent but short drink of whisky on ice.
1983 I. Goodman Heart Failure 28 Then surprise me. Vodka on ice with something bright stirred in.
2005 T. Janzen Crazy Cool xix. 282 At the bar, he got her an orange juice on ice and sat her down in a quiet corner.
b. hog on ice: see hog n.1 Phrases 6.
c. U.S. slang (now historical). a big thing on ice: a good thing (also on ice).
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1861 N.Y. Herald 24 Jan. 8/6 The Greatest Skating Excitement of the Season... At night the cry was not ‘Great is Diana’, but ‘Big thing on ice is calciums’. A calcium light was placed at each end of the upper pond.
1862 Tony Pastor's Comic & Eccentric Songster 20 A Big Thing on Ice. Comic Song. Written and Sung by Tony Pastor. Air—‘Bow-wow-wow’.
1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody xx. 231 In the hall, prominently posted up by a wag, under new memberships, is a notice: For Election. Gussie de P. Van Beekman, vice Baron Bassington, of Harrowby Castle, England. On ice!
1979 J. T. Dunn St. Croix xviii. 225 Pilot Jack Kent felt that the boat was a ‘big thing on ice’.
d. Originally U.S. Of an entertainment, ice show, etc.: performed by ice-skaters.
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1865 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. 7/4 The Grand Carnival on ice, which was postponed yesterday on account of the storm, will take place this afternoon and evening.
1938 Star-Jrnl. (Sandusky, Ohio) 11 Jan. 2/8 (advt.) A glamorous musical comedy on ice.
2012 C. Rax in Reckless 71 She excitedly claps her hands while watching several skaters practice some moves from The Nutcracker on Ice.
e. colloquial (originally U.S.). Postponed, deferred; held in reserve; chiefly in to put (also keep, leave, etc.) (a person or thing) on ice: to hold in reserve; to postpone for attention at a later date, defer; now rarely to put on the ice.
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1875 W. Scanlon Since Terry first joined Gang! (sheet music) 1/1 Old man, you're getting too fresh, And we'll soon have to put you on the ice.
1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody xx. 231 For Election. Gussie de P. Van Beekman... On ice!
1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling 328 They say she's never been able to find a man good enough for her, and so she's keeping herself on ice.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle ix. 117 Because the German mercantile marine was laid on ice till the end of the war, they had turned him on to this show.
1932 Amer. Speech 7 335 Put it on the ice, ‘forget it’.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xix. 322 Their idea is to put you on ice quietly till they've had time to settle up their affairs.
1957 A. Grimble Return to Islands 75 The problem that his resignation had left on ice, for whomever it might concern.
1965 New Statesman 14 May 771/2 Presumably the book, finished in 1957, was put on ice, for Mr Wood can hardly have hoped to get away in Beaverbrook's lifetime with much of the discussion of his ‘brash brutality’.
1991 S. Kendrick in Comfort & Joy (1997) 340 ‘It's on Wednesday.’‘Keep those kisses on ice until then?’
2009 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 11 June 27/3 The RTA smelter, while on ice, will go ahead..when its new stations..come on line.
f. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Certain to be achieved or won; chiefly in to put (something, esp. a contest) on ice: to ensure a successful outcome.
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1910 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 1 Apr. 19 A timely tap would have put the game on ice.
1936 E. S. Gardner Case of Sleepwalker's Niece xiv. 131 I figured that and the record of the telephone call would be enough to put the case on ice.
1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge vii. 276 I haven't signed on the dotted line yet, but it's on ice. The fella I'm going in with was a roommate of mine at college..and I'm dead sure he wouldn't hand me a lemon.
1974 Boys' Life Sept. 69/1 His score made it 17-6 and put the game on ice. ‘I knew you could do it,’ yelped Pete James when it was over.
1991 Sports Illustr. 3 June 35/2 That put the game on ice.
2006 K. A. Hoeffner All You've Got xxi. 244 On the third match point attempt, Rada served an ace to put the game on ice.
g. slang (chiefly U.S.). Held in custody or detention; in prison; chiefly in to put on ice and variants: to hold in custody or detention; to place in prison (also spec. in an isolation unit).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adverb] > in prison
in1574
in (occasionally the) hock1859
on ice1931
upstate1934
1931 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 18 July 978/2 Among the words and phrases common among racketeers, not yet in general use..there are the following:..on ice, in the penitentiary.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie x. 103 ‘I sent for the wagon,’ said the guy with the pipe. ‘We'll take them over to the third precinct and put them on ice.’
1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xii. 154 Scotland Yard could not keep him on ice that long. He would have to be brought to a court to be charged.
1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 115/2 Homer. Apu, I'd like you to drop the charges against my wife. Apu. No offense, Mr. Homer, but we're putting that bitch on ice!
2011 E. Dezenhall Devil Himself 55 Meyer got no joy seeing Luciano go to jail... On the one hand, if they put Luciano on ice, then they might start going after some of his partners next.
P4. colloquial (originally U.S.). on thin ice: in a precarious or risky situation. Cf. sense 2b.
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1871 Dartmouth June 231 But dodging this point by the word possibility, he finds himself on thin ice and skates fast to the conclusion.
1920 Pacific Printer June 322/1 The printer who uses slang in talking in type to his prospects is on thin ice.
1962 J. G. Bennett Witness xxii. 287 Thus, without knowing it, I was treading on very thin ice.
2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 iii. 78 ‘You said the police have found a body.’ I didn't answer his first question... I knew I was on thin ice here.
P5. colloquial (originally U.S.). to cut ice (with someone) and variants: to carry weight, have an influence or effect (upon); to impress. Chiefly in negative or other non-assertive contexts.
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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)]
rineOE
takec1300
concern1446
redound1460
work1487
touch1491
solicit1601
salutea1616
enact1616
affect1630
reach1637
attinge1640
act1655
influence1661
irradiate1668
vibrate1845
involve1847
inwork1855
to cut ice (with someone)1894
dent1931
impact1935
to make (also put) a dent in1942
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > be affected by impression [verb (intransitive)] > have effect
to pierce one's stomach1509
reverberate1608
impose1625
bite1638
to strike home1694
to cut ice (with someone)1894
register1913
project1933
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)]
to stand for something (or nothing)OE
frustrate1471
unavail1866
to cut ice1894
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon
to be lost on or upona1616
to cut ice1894
1894 J. A. Frye Fables Field & Staff 176 ‘Huh! w'at youse say cuts no ice wid me!’ says I, scornful. ‘It's clean nutty dat youse are.’
1896 Amer. Stationer 7 May 794/1 If special features and big crowds ‘cut any ice’, some should be cut this month, for the spring races begin on May 6 and will last two weeks.
1904 Albany (N.Y.) Weekly Times 30 June 4 The czar is to send an ice-breaking boat to the Far East, realizing apparently that his forces haven't been cutting much ice over that way.
1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow 291 It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you're an American citizen.
1924 A. Huxley Let. 28 Oct. (1969) 235 I was very glad..to hear that you liked Those Barren Leaves. It cuts more ice, I think, than the others and is more explicit and to the point.
1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 7 Oh, sit down, man, sit down. Youre in your own house: ceremony cuts no ice with me.
1955 Times 12 May 14/5 Burns..ended a bitter argument by declaring: ‘That cuts no ice with me. I want the referee to hold the money.’
1983 T. Heald Networks iii. 52 It cuts more ice to say that you were at Eton than at Shrewsbury.
1983 P. Dallas Ital. Wines (new ed.) ii. 30 This, fortunately, cuts little ice with the Italians.
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. iv. 7/2 However, only time will tell whether a personal plea from Major will cut much ice.
1996 A. Templeton Past praying For (1997) xv. 292 They had evidence that Hayley had quarrelled with McEvoy last night, and Hayley's airy explanation that it was just a little misunderstanding between friends hadn't cut any ice.
P6. straight off the ice: (of speech, demeanour, etc.) cold and sharp, lacking warmth or sympathy. Now rare.
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1922 A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom iii. vi. 247 I started cross-examining today. I gave him three and a half hours of it, straight off the ice, and I'm not through with him yet.
1939 K. John Prince Imperial x. 210 She passed him on to the War Office. Here also he got a welcome straight off the ice. ‘I can't imagine,’ said Palikao, ‘why the Emperor sent you.’
1951 ‘P. Wentworth’ Ivory Dagger viii. 41 No vulgar brawling—that wasn't her line. Just a voice and manner straight off the ice and straight to the point.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. Of or relating to ice; connected with, characterized by, or occurring in ice or the ice; performed on ice.
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OE Beowulf (2008) 1133 Winter yþe beleac isgebinde.
1619 W. Phillip tr. W. C. Schouten Relation Wonderfull Voiage 42 A great shippe with a sayle..like an Ice Slead.
1771 A. Dalrymple Hist. Coll. Several Voy. II. 27 After noon the king himself came with a large vessel under sail, of the same figure before described, like an ice sledge, and full thirty-five canoes who attended him.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxiv. 238 I set forth from town, on foot, towards Blithedale. It was the most delightful of all days for a walk, with a dash of invigorating ice-temper in the air.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 3/1 We are increasing our ice consumption at about the rate of five per cent. a year.
1905 L. Mott Jules of Great Heart i. 2 Obediently the leader swung into an ice ravine.
1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xv. 214 They often assume the form of rounded masses and are striated, specially on the side from which the ice movement came.
1957 Jet 19 Dec. 7 (caption) Uninjured after he lost control of his car when it hit an ice spot on a Pittsburgh bridge, Tom Cummings leans through broken-out windshield frame as ruptured line spouts geyser of water behind him.
1991 National Geographic Traveler Nov. 60/2 Flash floods..happen when ice movement suddenly releases water trapped in a glacial pool.
2004 Better Homes & Gardens Mar. 278/1 Children can learn to skate with V-blade skates and ice walkers.
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ice break n.
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1832 Jrnl. House of Representatives of Commonw. Pennsylvania 22 Mar. 657 The bill from the Senate No. 373, entitled ‘An act to authorize the mayor, aldermen and citizens of Philadelphia, to erect a guard pier and ice break..’ Was read the third time.
1981 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 12 Mar. Sunshine, warm temperatures and high winds were said to be the cause of the ice break.
ice carnival n.
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1861 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper (N.Y.) 5 Jan. 98/3 (heading) Another Word about the Ice Carnival. Once more we are upon the ice—yes, literally upon the ice, and a pretty mess we made of it.
1997 B. Geoffrion & S. Fischler Boom Boom iii. 30 I was taking part in a Catholic High School ice carnival at The Forum.
ice chart n.
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1845 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 48 374 A recital of the various authorities and marine reports from which our ice-chart has been compiled, might prove more tedious than useful.
1989 Associated Press (Nexis) 20 June The Norwegian Meteorological Institute sends out weekly ice charts of the area, but the situation changes too quickly to be dependable for navigation.
ice-coldness n.
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1659 S. Rutherford Infl. Life of Grace ii. iii. 150 Literal and natural heat is nearer to spiritual and supernatural heat, then extreme ice-coldnesse.
1838 C. Hering tr. G. H. G. Jahr Man. Homœopathic Med. 149 Ice-coldness in the small of the back, especially during efforts to urinate.
1998 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Sept. d1 The ice coldness of that water will shock the insect and cause it to let go of the leaf.
2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 20 Dec. 11 Even if we'd dreamed of such vindictive behaviour, we'd never have had the ruthless icecoldness to carry it through.
ice-crack n.
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1830 Polar Star 5 66/1 An ice-worm! Ah! I have heard something of them. They are to he found in the ice-cracks at the top of Agri-Daugh.
1991 ‘J. Gash’ Great Calif. Game (1992) xxvi. 225 Hawaii brings in a new billion from glass pipes—very promising, now ice-crack's on the mainland here.
ice crossing n.
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1845 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 12 June 382/2 Opposite that place the ice crossing is safer than almost any where else upon the Lake.
1918 Gillette Blade Feb. 29/2 The ice crossing is rather dangerous; in fact, the ice in the river broke the next day.
1973 Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard 5 Mar. 7/3 During the afternoon, we had another long snowshoe march and a demonstration of ice-crossing. This must be done with great care testing the thickness with an axe every 50 feet.
2011 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 18 Mar. a2 Officials are also warning recreational vehicle drivers not to use ice crossings.
ice fair n.
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1813 H. Ellis Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (rev. ed.) II. 319 (note) The antient Northern Nations held annual Ice Fairs. See Olaus Magnus. We too have heard of Ice Fairs on the River Thames.
1907 A. Machen Hill of Dreams vi. 222 He rarely saw a newspaper, and did not follow from day to day the systematic readings of the thermometer, the reports of ice-fairs, of coaches driven across the river at Hampton, of the skating on the fens.
2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 18/1 Over the centuries it has been used for industry,..ice fairs,..beaches.
ice hole n.
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1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 539 Members of an assembly, which could affect ignorance of all these horrors,..reproaching their successors for tolerating..the ice-holes of Avignon and of the second of September.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xii. 87 The ice-hole of the Vituline seal.
1994 City & Country Home Winter 71/1 We jig for lake trout, chanting an unknown song by the ice hole.
ice-melting n. and adj.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiv. 312 Yet last summer was a most favorable one for ice-melting.
a1863 H. M. Johnson in Canad. Wild Flowers (1884) 57 And the little bright streams, as they frolic and run, Turn a look full of thanks to the ice-melting sun.
1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 11 Apr. 11 A key concern is that this..may also disrupt the patterns of ice-melting.
1993 New Scientist 16 Jan. 23/2 When you look at the ice-melting performance, it is cost-effective over a season because it is more effective.
ice-merchant n.
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1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 394 The very Ice-Merchant at Leghorne pays above a Thousand Pound Sterling annually for his Privilege.
1864 Chambers's Jrnl. 99/1 The men take the ice to ice-merchants, who are ready to buy it in any quantity.
1973 Post Office Telephone Directory Section 471, London Yellow Pages Classified (North) 177/2 (heading) Ice and cold storage companies and ice merchants.
1994 S. P. Somtow Jasmine Nights (1995) ixx. 143 An old ice-merchant, with his bicycle-driven ice-cart parked beside the bridge, is shaving ice; tall jars of syrup are lashed to the cart.
ice navigation n.
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1826 R. P. Gillies Tales Voyager to Arctic Ocean III. 3 After the vital questions of whale taking and ice navigation had been settled, a proposal was made..to dispose of certain rations of hung beef and pancakes.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 31 Mar. 2/1 The crew will consist of twenty-four men, all of them experienced in ice navigation.
1985 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 9 Mar. The funds will be used to support strengthening of trawlers for ice navigation and for other purposes.
ice palace n.
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1765 Lloyd's Evening Post 29 Nov.–2 Dec. 532/1 The ice palace built at Petersburgh, in the winter of the year 1739 or 40.
1884 Bath Jrnl. 16 Feb. 7/2 In the evening the Ice Palace was a wonderfully beautiful structure.
1971 P. Berton Last Spike vii. vi. 315 George Wainwright..wanted to launch a winter carnival at Winnipeg, complete with ice palaces, dog trains, and Indian mushers.
2004 Loaded Mar. 61/1 She's rucked it out in an Arctic ice palace with Pierce Brosnan.
ice pressure n.
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1855 J. W. Dawson Acadian Geol. iii. 40 Lake Margins in Nova Scotia are of some geological interest, from the effects of ice-pressure which they exhibit.
1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 387 We succeeded in getting in, although with a damaged ship, the rudder and rudder-post being smashed in heavy ice-pressure at the mouth of the fjord.
2007 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Apr. a12 A few years ago, in a raging blizzard, the ice pressure pushed us up out of the water and on to our side.
ice road n.
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1820 D. Clinton Lett. Nat. Hist. & Internal Resources N.Y. (1822) v. 26 It is alleged that the canal will make a good ice road in winter, but I have no faith in this opinion.
1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 122 The ice-roads [across the St Lawrence] are always marked out by spruce-trees stuck in the snow.
1986 J. D. Hamilton Bob Friday's Other Eye ii. 9 Truck wheels began to skid on an ice road.
ice shove n.
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1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada II. 102 Mr. Wright termed these wavy rocks, ice-shoves: he agreed that they had once been the channels of rapids, and were scooped out by the spring floods, laden with ice.
1865 F. Parkman Champlain xi, in Pioneers of France in New World 334 He built a wall of bricks..in order to measure the destructive effects of the ‘ice-shove’ in the spring.
1906 Canad. Mag. Sept. 392/1 At last, one bright April day, the ‘ice-shove’ passed.
2003 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 27 Feb. f5 Ice shoves and pressure ridges present no problem for anglers working ice in this area.
ice show n.
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1920 Assoc. Monthly Dec. 613/2 They are walking up-town to watch the street sights and meet the boys, going to..the ice-show or the movies or dances about every night in the week.
1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 432/2 Of recent years ‘ice shows’ have been made popular in the U.S.A. and Canada.
2001 S. Strum Barcelona: Guide Archit. v. 16 A smaller multipurpose pavilion was built for the Olympic track events but now accommodates sports events, ice shows, congresses and concerts.
ice sled n.
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1619Ice Slead [see Compounds 1a].
1675 D. Manly Hexham's Copious Eng. & Netherdutch Dict. (new ed.) at Narre-sled An Ice-sled, or Chariot which being cut out into sutch antick fashions, hath [etc.].
1863 E. H. Walshe Cedar Creek xx. 98 You'll only want to fix runners in front of the ice-sled goin' back, an' 'twill carry any load.
1958 Pop. Mech. Oct. 191/1 With a few mechanical changes, almost any 10-hp. or larger motor can be..used to propel an ice sled.
2011 R. Tremblay & L. Schulstad Carver County iv. 69 (caption) Elmer Sell sits in the pilot seat of his ice sled that he built using an old airplane motor.
ice track n.
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1804 Univ. Theol. Mag. Mar. 146 Only two ways were left for this purpose, either to attempt the land passage across the wild and unfrequented mountain Kiglapeit, or to wait for a new ice track.
1998 BBC Top Gear Mag. Sept. 85/2 Even the weediest of these snow bikes will do 60mph, and jumping them is as much fun as getting crossed up on an ice track.
ice-travel n.
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1852 N.-Y. Daily Times 15 Dec. 4/5 Terra firma as the basis of his operations with a view of obviating the capricious character of ice travel.
1997 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (Nexis) 14 Dec. c20 As one of the businessmen who introduced tracked vehicles to Lake of the Woods,..he felt a responsibility to help make ice-travel safer.
ice upheaval n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vi. 58 Nothing of ice-upheaval has ever been described equal to this.
1936 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 20 Jan. 6/2 A plane..was crushed when a freak of nature caused a phenomenal ice upheaval.
2000 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 Jan. a10 The shoreline along Shediac Bay experienced huge ice upheavals during last Friday's blizzard.
C2. In the names of tools, implements, and means of conveyance used in the collection, carriage, and storage of ice, esp. for economic or domestic purposes.
ice barge n.
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1856 Peterson's Mag. Nov. 308/1 He rides in his ice-barge from his northern realm along the bright Hudson.
1984 Adweek (U.S.) (Nexis) 10 Sept. Obviously, death on an ice barge is not for everyone.
ice basket n.
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1805 Anti-Jacobin Rev. Jan. 92 The ice-baskets and dark lanthorns will receive no sensible addition of weight, though crammed full of heat and light.
1906 B. E. Grimshaw Vaiti of Islands (1908) xviii. 274 A vision of gold-necked champagne bottles lying coolly embedded in ice-baskets.
2004 J. Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2009) xii. 152 I opened the freezer door. Inside, lying carefully on top of the ice basket, was Barbie's body.
ice-crusher n.
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 452 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI Improvements in bell tents; in ice crushers; fire escapes, and skates, have also been patented.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 200 Ice-crusher, ice-picks, and tools used in handling ice.
1965 ‘L. Egan’ Detective's Due ii. 18 A good many gadgets..electric can opener, blender, ice crusher mounted on the wall.
2004 Boys Toys July 105/1 (advt.) This stylish and modern-looking electric ice crusher will crush your solid ice cubes into ‘slush puppy’ ice.
ice-cutter n.
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1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 120 The fishing party consisted of..natives of Canada, who, being provided with axes, ice-cutters..set off.
1858 Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 15 Feb. 3/4 (advt.) Log chains, plough gears, rough lock, ice cutter.
1969 New Scientist 13 Mar. 574/2 A new type of ice-breaker is needed for breaking up solid ice. We have devised one and christened it an ice-cutter.
1999 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. v. 37/5 Two small ice cutters had been lowered from the ship and were waiting to carry us closer to the glacier.
ice fork n.
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1867 Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours Aug. 458/1 Chand..reappeared, bearing a lacquered tray, upon which were neatly arrayed the articles enumerated by his master, with the addition of a tumbler, spoon, napkin, and ice-fork.
1986 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 15 Mar. e9 A penny-farthing bicycle hangs on the wall along with a toy horse, an ice fork and a 125-year old virgin pine plank.
ice leveller n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1163/2 Ice-leveler, an implement for leveling the surface of pond ice. It has an oblong frame, upon the front side of which is affixed a cutting-edge of steel.
1963 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 2 Mar. 6/1 Olson has brought out a steady stream of perfected flooding tubes, ice levellers, measuring sticks, pebblers, circle and line cutters, sprinkling heads, brushes and sweepers.
ice mallet n.
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1869 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 16 June (advt.) Ice mallet and breaker—a very neat little article for cracking up ice.
1912 C. A. Siringo Cowboy Detective xiv. 316 When Bat had no more glasses to throw, he came running from behind the bar with an ice mallet.
1998 P. Wisner Summer Cocktails 11 Ice mallet: If you don't have access to cracked ice, this is nice to have.
ice marker n.
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1846 Frozen Stream ii. 54 The ice-marker is then used, which makes two new grooves parallel with the first, twenty-one inches apart, one limb of the marker remaining in the groove first formed by the plough.
1928 Pop. Mech. Mar. 504/1 First the car was tried with the ice marker and then with the grooving plow, and it was found that a much larger area was covered in this way than with horses.
2009 T. K. Groft et al. Hudson River Panorama 80 Snowplows or scrapers removed the snow; ice markers, cutters, and saws cut the ice; and ice hooks, chisels, and hoisting tongs moved it.
ice-preserver n.
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1822 P. Force National Cal. III. 160 Patents issued in 1821... Portable Ice preserver.
1917 National Provisioner 8 Sept. 32/3 A great number of cold-storage cars, ice-preservers and harbor depots will have to be provided.
2005 Chem. News & Intelligence (Nexis) 1 Feb. February, a month in which summer demand declines due to diminished sales of ice cream containers and portable ice preservers.
ice rope n.
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1420 Foreign Accts. 3 Henry VI (Public Rec. Office) K (MED) j hokerope ij Ice ropes ij Tackes ij shetes.
1817 E. Chappell Narr. Voy. Hudson's Bay 183 We undid all the preparations which had been made for manœuvring whilst amongst the ice; such as, re-stowing our anchors, and putting below ice-ropes, ice-anchors, ice-axes, &c.
1985 Fram 2 246 After having destroyed the greater part of our ice ropes and several whale lines together with most of the handspikes and many of the boat hooks in the ship.
ice scraper n.
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1790 F. Nutt Compl. Confectioner (ed. 2) cxxxii. 117 Stir it and scrape it about with your ice scraper till you find it all frozen.
1850 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. July 16 The patentee says,—‘My ice scraper consists of a wooden frame of the form, in outline, nearly of an isosceles triangle.’
1993 Canad. Living July 88/2 (advt.) Seven pockets hold maps, magazines, sunglasses, gloves, ice scraper, flashlight, umbrella—all in one handy place.
ice shaver n.
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1836 Amer. Monthly Mag. Feb. 205 A critic, like a corporation, should be a body without a heart—a machine..[that] cuts through feelings and houses with the coolness and precision of a patent ice-shaver.
1906 Refrigerating World Sept. 50/2 A tug of war was next... The prizes were an ice shaver, pair tongs and an ice pick.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 June d7/3 If you do not have an ice shaver, pour syrup into a metal baking pan and put in freezer.
ice spade n.
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1811 Times 2 Feb. 4/5 (advt.) A Superb Desert [sic] Service..comprising 18 knives, 18 four-prong forks, 18 spoons, and a pair of ice spades, with mahogany box for ditto.
1912 Forest & Stream 16 Nov. 620/3 With shovel, axe, ice-spade, traps and bait we arrived at the pond and commenced operations.
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 28 July 13 Made of silver gilt,..it includes 140 dishes, 288 dinner plates and a bewildering inventory of knives, forks, spoons, marrow scoops, ice spades and stupendous table sculptures.
ice tongs n.
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1846 Times 30 June 11/2 (advt.) Wenham Lake ice-dishes, in richly cut crystal and frosted glass, Ice-tongs,..Ice-jugs, Sherry-cobbler Glasses and Tubes, &c., in great variety.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1171/1 Ice-tongs, grasping implements for carrying blocks of ice.
1990 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 11 May a1 The gift shop also has..zebra- and penguin-shaped ice tongs, sets of ceramic dishes with leopard prints and pewter rhinoceros bookmarks.
ice tool n.
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1835 R. Huish Last Voy. Capt. Sir John Ross iii. 576 The ice-tools were also got in readiness.
1912 Pacific Reporter 123 87/1 The defendant asked questions of the witness Crawford, a hardware merchant of Guernsey, as to selling ice tools to Fletcher & Wilde on December 19th.
2007 Trail Feb. 55/3 A recent development is the leashless ice tool.
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a. Composed or consisting of ice, as ice-bay, ice-dust, ice-hump, ice-ocean, ice-precipice, ice-shoal, ice-table, etc.
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eOE Metres of Boethius (2009) xxviii. 63 Wlitetorh [perh. read Wlitetorht] scineð sunna swegle hat; sona gecerreð ismere ænlic on his agen gecynd, weorðeð to wætre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 260 It is a sword of Spaine, the Ise brookes temper.
1619 J. Chambers Let. 16 June in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) III. 734 We were put ashore in the Ice Bay.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila 242 Periwig'd with Snow's each bald-pate Wood, Bound in Ice-Chains each strugling Hood.
1744 (title) An account of the glacieres or ice alps in Savoy.
1818 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 366/2 What more impressive or affecting scenes could be borrowed from the pages of history, than..the sufferings of the forty-two Englishmen on the ice-shoals?
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vii. 71 We could see the strait growing still narrower, and the heavy ice-tables grinding up.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 84 Breathing more freely after we had cleared the ice-precipice.
1897 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 325 Among the ice-hummocks off the southern shore of Franz Josef Land.
1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 67 Floating like a cork among the ice-humps.
1953 W. M. Miller in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 102/2 A soft sift of ice-dust obscured the stars.
1997 Harper's Mag. Mar. 34/2 I delight in the spare landscape out the plane window—ice oceans and ice mountains and clouds full of ice.
2000 Shetland Life Apr. Large ice lumps were coming down on them before a strong gale, and within minutes they were nipped in.
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ice barricade n.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvi. 212 The entire plain is triangulated with ice-barricades.
1985 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 28 Sept. i. 5 Last week's storm lasted a record 84 hours, which was far more than the island could withstand, especially before the winter's ice barricade could be constructed.
ice barrier n.
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1821 C. Bucke On Beauties of Nature I. ii. iv. 234 The idea is..generally agreed upon, that after having passed the ice barrier of Spitzbergen, the sea is open.
1874 G. Campbell Let. 14 Feb. in Log Lett. from ‘Challenger’ (1876) ii. 99 We had hoped to see the great ice-barrier, that endless wall of ice two hundred feet in height which fringes the southern continent.
1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun x. 106 The ice-barrier was thickening fast, and as it seemed impenetrable under the westerly gale..we cast the Trader's anchor.
2008 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 29 Mar. a15 Meltwater is moving beneath the ice caps and warmer ocean water is melting coastal ice barriers from below.
ice blockade n.
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1814 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 5 Feb. 3/2 Owing to an ice blockade, there has been no communication with the Continent since the 5th ult.
1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xxiv. 95 The waters of life are free of the ice-blockade of hunger.
2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 15 Apr. a4 The..snowmobile..travelled almost 1,800 kilometres through -40 C temperatures in a twisting route around ice blockades and impassable gorges.
ice bridge n.
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1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. i. 5 The mouth of this inlet is blocked up in such a manner by many great pieces of ice driven out by the ebb, that it forms a phænomenon like an arched ice-bridge.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xl. 460 A young porter..started across an ice-bridge which spanned a crevasse.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 9/2 After twenty days we found an ice-bridge over the water between the continental ice and the Polar ice.
2009 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 18/1 An ice bridge linking a vast shelf of ice to two islands in Antarctica has snapped, providing the latest evidence of rapid climate change, say scientists.
ice cake n.
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1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France 930 There was..a mountain of Ice-Cakes accumulated on the Saone.
1870 Canad. Illustr. News 26 Mar. 334/1 One ice-cake after another struck her boat.
1960 S. Plath Colossus 44 Farther out, the waves will be mouthing icecakes.
2003 Alaska Mag. May 80/1 Jumbled ice cakes..were being dismembered so that we could sled our walrus-skin boat to the open lead.
ice cataract n.
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1857 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 14 (Suppl.) 494 I believe that the effect of ice-cataracts in breaking up the surface of the glacier has been somewhat overrated.
1926 Geogr. Jrnl. 68 8 The Ogilvie Glacier..straight at its head an ice cataract 2000 feet high.
2000 S. Venables Slender Thread vii. 101 Once again we were on an island between ice cataracts.
ice cliff n.
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1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole p. xv Against the ice-cliffs..the sea has washed underneath, and the arch overhanging, most fearful to behold, supports mountains of snow.
1864 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 34 30 Our camp was pitched just beyond the reach of the blocks and stones, which..kept incessantly coming down the ice-cliff.
1925 T. H. Somervell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 iii. vi. 356 The steep ice cliffs of the North Col are safer than the avalanchy slopes.
2007 Climb Mag. May (Alpine Rock Suppl.) 22/1 As the glacier is slowly moving the ice cliffs or seracs will eventually just peel away, with gravity and time being the master.
ice cone n.
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Icicle D[utch] yskegel, ice-cone.
1841 J. Caughey Lett. 8 July (1844) I. 69 You may see it [sc. Montmorency Falls] with an accompaniment, which it never has in the summer; an immense ice-cone, formed by the spray.
1924 Geogr. Jrnl. 64 201 Approaching the coast, we crossed..a dry branch glacier studded with pointed ice cones 4 feet high.
2007 P. Corrigan Waterfalls ii. 23 In early winter, an ice cone typically forms at the base of Upper Yosemite Fall.
ice cover n.
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1857 J. Gowa tr. J. P. F. Richter Campaner Thal 82 This consumption, like a physical one, must one day be sheltered and raised by the ice cover of death?
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. ii. 416 On the ice-worn surface of Norway singular cavities..known as ‘giants' kettles’..have had an origin under the massive ice-cover which once spread over that peninsula.
1958 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. (ed. 4) ii. 22 The ice-cover made the whole of Scandinavia and Northern Germany uninhabitable.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xxii. 393/2 In North American temperate and arctic lakes, many fishes feed actively despite thick ice cover.
ice crystal n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > crystal
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1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. III. at Frost Hoar frost, M. Regius observes, consists of an assemblage of little parcels of ice crystals.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 394 It matters not through what ice-crystals it is seen.
1919 D. H. Lawrence in Eng. Rev. June 485 Some, blonde, blue-eyed, northern, are evidently water-born, born along with the ice-crystals and blue, cold deeps.
1956 Nature 18 Feb. 321/2 Collisions occurring between ice crystals and small hailstones.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Feb. e3/1 The protein extensin, a natural antifreeze found in carrots,..prevents the carrots from developing ice crystals in the ground.
ice dock n.
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1773 Jrnl. Voy. Present Majesty in Hist. Acct. Voy. round World IV. App. 81 While the ships remained in the ice dock, they were lashed together for their greater security.
1875 Day of Rest 12 June 378/1 Before our whaler, lying snug in an ice-dock, can send assistance to her, over she goes, jammed up by two meeting floes.
1994 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 6 Feb. f5 Discharge of diesel fuel from ships at an ice dock has contributed to the contamination.
ice drop n.
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1745 Coll. Voy. & Trav. I. 241/2 Water thrown up in the air would descend in ice drops.
1817 J. Keats Poems 32 Pure as the ice-drop.
1907 Country Life Feb. 421/1 Every needle of the drooping pine tassels is weighted with an ice drop.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Property Suppl.) 4/6 Now there is the problem of ice drops from leaking aircraft toilets.
ice-edge n.
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1825 Rhyme or Reason? 98 Clear and sharp the ice-edge bore My sliding car along.
1947 G. Rawson Arctic Adventures ix. 187 The cutter reached the ice edge, and a man sprang out of it.
1966 T. Armstrong et al. Illustr. Gloss. Snow & Ice 22 Ice edge, the boundary at any given time between open water and sea, river or lake ice of any kind, whether drifting or fast.
2003 P. Eden Daily Tel. Bk. Weather (2005) iii. 11 Similar temperatures probably obtained in other regions just beyond the ice-edge such as central Europe.
ice face n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvi. 187 I found an opening to the ice-face, by which I was able to climb down to them.
1898 J. O. Maund in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 276 Above the ice face snow slopes lying at a much less rapid angle led to the final rock peak.
1995 Independent 6 Feb. 5/4 The two students became stranded on an ice face 300ft below the 4,408ft summit.
ice flake n.
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1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) ii. 100 Her joints in sicken'd languor play, As ice-flakes part beneath the potent ray.
1819 tr. C. de la Poix Freminville Voy. to North Pole 81 We cleared those mountains of ice-flakes, many of which rose to the height of our main-top-mast; they were transparent, and of a most beautiful azure blue.
1915 E. Pound Cathay 23 Hung with hard ice-flakes, where hail-scur flew.
1985 M. Parfit South Light (1988) ix. 108 For a few seconds after he left, a cloud of ice flakes rose in the hole.
ice float n.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 326 They [sc. bears] are not only seen at land, but often on ice-floats, several leagues at sea.
1857 Archæol. Jrnl. 14 132 Science tells us of vast icefloats which carried these erratic blocks from the granite rocks of Sweden, to dash against the mountain barriers of the Hartz.
1997 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 3 Jan. 2 Adelie penguins leaping onto an ice float,..are among the award-winning images in this year's British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.
ice fringe n.
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1841 Argus 3 Jan. 9/1 Ay! on the ice-fringe of thy snowy pall A nation's tears of gladness are congeal'd.
1902 Spectator 25 Oct. 604/1 Persecuted until they were practically driven off the seas, they took refuge furthest north along the ice-fringe.
1966 T. Armstrong et al. Illustr. Gloss. Snow & Ice 23 Ice fringe, a very narrow ice piedmont, extending less than about 1 km inland from the sea.
2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 Oct. a10 The sea there is heating... Green grass and beech trees are taking root on the ice fringes.
ice lake n.
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1802 tr. C. A. Fischer Trav. Spain xxvi. 118 The gigantic forms of these naked and awful rocks reminded me of those which skirt the ice-lakes of Montpanvert in the Alps of Faucigny.
1934 Antiquity 8 245 A geochronological investigation of the ice-lake sediments.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 8 The earliest postglacial Baltic was an ice lake.
2006 Total Film Feb. 16/2 One of the film's most exciting sequences—the children's breathless escape from the Witch's snarling wolf-pack on a shattering ice-lake—wasn't in the novel.
ice mass n.
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1778 J. R. Forster Observ. Voy. round World ii. 71 To leeward of large ice masses, commonly loose pieces of ice are drifting of various sizes.
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 32/2 The quantity of ice on each side of Davis's Strait is often small, and then the continuity of the ice-masses is liable to be broken, so as to allow ships to reach the land.
1915 Mountaineer 8 71 Almost perpendicular walls of interbedded lava and ash rise hundreds of feet above the ice mass which is constantly gnawing away the base of the cliffs.
2004 M. Odom Destr. Bks. 45 The lanterns touched a large gleaming ice mass to starboard and the helm made the necessary corrections to pull away from the danger.
ice pearl n.
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1590 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Canticle in Triumph of Faith (1592) 5 The quicke rebounding beads of yce-pearle slippery shining.
1871 E. Marshall To-day & Yesterday iv. 84 The sun kissed the wreaths of ice-pearls and changed them into tears.
1908 J. Muir tr. J. Bojer Power of Lie ii. vi. 137 Sharp hail-showers had taken the place of the snow-storm, and deluged him with rolling ice-pearls.
2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. 12 My head was swooning from the altitude, and ice pearls formed on my eyelashes.
ice plain n.
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1802 S. T. Coleridge Chamouny in Morning Post 11 Sept. 3/1 God! God! The torrents, like a shout of nations, Utter! The ice-plain bursts, and answers God!
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. l. 485 The great ice-plain formed one continuous sheet from the Greenland shore as far as the eye could reach.
1996 Evening Standard (Nexis) 17 Oct. 26 The photography of the Nordic ice plains and mountains..compensates for a family yarn that some may find a bit old-fashioned.
ice rain n.
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1822 R. Morrison Dict. Chinese Lang.: Pt. III i. 642/2 ‘Ice rain’, hail stones.
1832 J. F. Watson Hist. Tales of Olden Time (1833) 251 Nor is it less grateful, as a winter scene, to behold the occasional magnificent effulgence of an ice-rain, embossing in crystal glory, as if by magic hands, the whole surface of the surrounding works of nature and art.
1989 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 10 Apr. The annual spate of ice rain pelting Nova Scotia's coast has done nothing to quell tempers.
ice ridge n.
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1802 A. Bannerman Tales Superstition & Chivalry 95 Unmoving and still, as that terrible form, He stood on the ice-ridges, cleft by the storm.
1892 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 223 Nothing tends more to weary and render him [sc. a mountaineer] careless than some hours of step-cutting on an ice-ridge.
1929 F. Smythe Climbs & Ski Runs xv. 288 We gained the foot of the rock pitch separating the third ice-ridge from the fourth.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 24/2 But the terrain was terrible—ice ridges, chaotic areas of pressure,..and crevasses everywhere.
ice roof n.
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1837 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches I. 310 In 1764, just as we were repairing our snow ramparts around our cavern, on rising one morning we found..our ice-roof penetrated in two places.
1985 Offshore (Nexis) Nov. 77 The outer part of the base is made of steel with a concrete ice roof.
ice sea n.
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1609 W. Phillip tr. G. de Veer True Descr. Three Voy. sig. O We could still see Ice in the Tartarian Sea, otherwise called the Ice Sea.
1846 L. M. Child Fact & Fiction 235 Who knows what people there may be under the ice-sea of Folgefond?
1985 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 1 July James Norris..helped make history when he guided the Nautilus..through uncharted ice seas under the North Pole.
ice slope n.
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1839 J. Maveston Phantasies & Dreams 74 He hies, Quicker than one would down an ice-slope slide.
1982 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 110 84 Surface winds over the Antarctic interior occur mainly due to the strong radiational cooling of the ice slopes.
ice spicule n.
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1868 E. Loomis Treat. on Meteorol. v. 125 Sometimes ice spiculæ are attached to the angles of the hexagon.]
1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 98 On examining the ice-spicules, they were found to be perfectly crystalline, with angles of from 60° to 120°.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics iii. 90 Three in number, they [sc. the rings of Saturn] are..made up of millions upon millions of..particles, pebbles, grains of dust, and perhaps ice spicules.
1993 Arctic Circle Fall 34/1 We traveled into a hissing, roaring avalanche of snow. The dogs hated it. The wind-lashed ice spicules hurt their eyes.
ice surface n.
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1842 J. D. Forbes in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 56 These accumulations of debris (to which the name of Moraines has been given), conform themselves so entirely to the configuration of the ice-surface, that on many glaciers scarcely one stone lies upon another.
1996 K. S. Robinson Blue Mars 160 The crennellated ice surface crunched under his brown boots.
ice trap n.
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1824 G. F. Lyon Private Jrnl. viii. 340 In the summer they are but rarely taken, and it is then by means of a trap of stones, formed like the ice-trap, with a falling door.
1949 Boys' Life Jan. 18/2 They could easily have stumbled blindly into one of the ice traps.
2005 RIA Novosti (Nexis) 2 Mar. A killer whale with three cubs saved herself after spending two days in the ice trap near Iturup.
ice vault n.
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1760 London Evening Post 5–8 Apr. Ordered even the Cellars and Ice-Vaults to be searched.
1868 T. G. Bonney Alpine Regions of Switzerland iii. 56 The beauty of the blue ice-vault tempts us to try to gain a footing on some of the rocks.
1999 Toronto Star (Nexis) 8 Nov. Other scientists are now clamouring..to collect samples of the same ancient ice... ‘I'm promising them as much as they can carry,’ says delighted federal glaciologist David Fisher, guardian of the ice vault.
ice wall n.
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1818 E. Henderson Iceland I. vi. 239 The water..has at last carried the greater part of the ice-wall before it to some distance.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 173 I visited the ice-wall at the Tacul.
1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity xx. 191 Piton after piton, he clawed up the ice wall.
ice waste n.
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1829 H. Miller Poems 115 Hast thou ever trod The ice-wastes that in Saturn lie?
1905 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 16/1 There is neither the sport nor the game that cheers the Northern ice-wastes.
2011 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 13 They wander around the frozen ice wastes attempting to locate their chicks.
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a. Instrumental, with past participles, forming adjectives.
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 76 The Ice-chylled water from the cold Fountaine.
1597 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) xi. lxv 278 He thinks himselfe an happie Man may touch the yse-hewne Pit.
a1658 J. Cleveland Content in Wks. (1687) 248 Some Ice-bound Wilderness.
1753 London Mag. May 235 Rivers ice-imprisoned streams, A while forbid to flow.
1798 W. Sotheby tr. C. M. Wieland Oberon iii. lxiii. 98 Wedg'd in masses ice-emboss'd.
1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 122 The ice-chain'd waters slumbering on the shore.
1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse ii. i. 19 An ice-glazed precipice.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xiv. 156 Through the ice-crusted window-panes of the cabin.
1897 E. Conybeare Hist. Cambs. 5 Travelled fragments of rock, usually ice-marked.
1922 Educ. Screen Jan. 22/2 Nor will he be in any doubt as to Norway's climate... Her snow-clad mountain tops, the gaping crevasses of her glaciers, the ice-fed lakes.
1950 Life 6 Mar. 123/1 As the..barges crunched to a stop in the ice-clogged canals, happy Hollanders began strapping on their skates.
1992 G. Glazner From Iron Chair i. 26 I pick up a last birch leaf—it's ice-crusted, red-ribbed.
2010 Trail Spring 14/2 Off the side of Steel Edge are some reliable ice falls that give a good selection of thick ice and ice-glazed rock.
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ice-capped adj.
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1832 D. Brewster Edinb. Encycl. XIII. 464/1 These torrents from the ice-capped volcanoes appear to be entirely external.
1992 Canada's N.W. Territories Explorers' Guide 35/1 Our ice-capped islands are home to rare muskoxen,..caribou, foxes, wolves and polar bears.
ice-clad adj.
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1797 S. W. Morton Beacon Hill 51 The hard bosom of the ice-clad seas.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 154 Where the whole country is completely ice-clad.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Boston, Mass.) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 20 I glide my bare hand over a smooth ice-clad branch.
ice-coated adj.
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1824 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Philadelphia) Mar. 274 The clouds, On whose ice-coated and precipitous side, No living thing may tarry.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxxiv. 377 They came to an ice-coated ridge.
1928 Observer 15 July 22 Ice-coated ships.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Feb. d2/1 They settled briefly on large, ice-coated blocks of packed snow.
ice-cooled adj.
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1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. vi. 362 Those savoury banquets, and ice-cooled potations.
1898 Amer. Practitioner & News 26 269 An apparatus..will force ice-cooled air into the theaters during the hot weather.
1995 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 30 July 84 In the meltdown heat of Arkansas, the carts are laden with ice-cooled beers, Cokes and liquor.
ice-covered adj.
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1793 W. Kendall Poems 64 Thro' ice-cover'd regions I'll pass.
1845 E. Cook Poems 2nd Ser. 253 The ice-covered scalps..of the Alps.
1956 Nature 17 Mar. 508/1 The lofty ice-covered interior of Antarctica.
2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo xix. 325 ‘Tukting’ a car was apparently a winter sport that involved smashing up a vehicle on the ice-covered lake.
ice-laden adj.
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1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man III. viii. 162 Nor bleak mountain-top, nor snow-nourished rivulet; not the ice-laden Biz, nor thunder, the tamer of contagion, had preserved them.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 107 Between us and the ice-laden valley.
1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses vi. 106 The ice-laden storm..had starred and abraded the plate glass until it was completely opaque.
2010 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 23 Dec. 5 Sarah had been trying to help a motorist spiralling out of control on ice-laden Honeybourne Way.
ice-lined adj.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxiii. 190 A large spheroidal mass..undulated for a while over the ice-lined horizon of Wellington Channel.
1941 Arizona Independent Republic 17 Jan. ii. 2/2 (caption) The sled slithers along ice-lined ditches with snow flying.
2004 Smithsonian Apr. 92/1 I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and..a giant clam.
ice-locked adj.
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1805 Maryland Gaz. 7 Feb. 1/1 The genial current of the warmest imagination begins to be ice-locked, when it turns the frosty corner of forty.
1814 Literary Panorama 1 12 No art, no contrivance can remove this ice-locked barrier; it must be endured.
1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 50 Wide swung again our ice-locked door.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 2/3 Ice-locked Polar snows.
1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic i. 13 Now the strait was ice-locked.
1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 280 All night he had juddered, as if in vibrant motion, on the ice-locked rails.
ice-preserved adj.
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1831 H. T. de la Beche Geol. Man. iii. 170 It was not until 1804 that this mass fell on the sand, and disclosed the ice-preserved elephant, whose tusks were cut off and sold by the Tungusian chief.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 176 The ice-preserved Arctic mammalia.
1992 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 22 May p10 Two dweeb teen-agers unearth an ice-preserved blue-eyed caveman while digging a backyard swimming pool.
ice-worn adj.
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1843 J. D. Forbes Trav. Alps of Savoy iii. 56 [A wood-cut] of blocks resting on an ice-worn surface, within a few fathoms of a modern glacier, by which they have been deposited.
1893 H. H. Howorth Glacial Nightmare II. 704 The higher parts of the Dovrefelds..have not been ice-worn.
1993 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 20 Nov. c4 Not far from here, on the magnificently ice-worn western slopes of the Canadian Rockies, the Columbia River begins in trickles at the feet of glaciers.
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a. Parasynthetic, as ice-bearded, ice-helmed, ice-pillared, ice-ribbed, etc.
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a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1096 Ice-bearded Boreas.
1742 S. Boyse tr. W. van Haren Praise of Peace i. 8 An ice-crown'd Mountain's Head.
1798 Edinb. Mag. May 384/2 Level with the ice-ribbed bound The yellow harvests glow.
1838 E. Cook Melaia i He burst through the ice-pillar'd gates of the North.
1875 H. W. Longfellow Voices of Waters in Pandora vi. The mountains, the giants, The ice-helmed, the forest-belted.
1921 E. Shanks Island of Youth iii. 102 From snowy slopes and dizzy ice-belted peaks, Stole, with the louder sounding of the waterfall, A still wind hardly moving.
1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 58 Creaking snow lanes, arcades of the ice-bearded and bowing trees.
1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. vi. ii. 37/1 The storm subsided and a deep, blue-black sky appeared above the ice-ribbed cliffs of Devil's Castle.
2007 India Today Trav. Plus (Nexis) Sept. 53 As the doors are thrown open in welcome, you'll find yourself in an ice-pillared foyer lit by a glittering ice chandelier.
b.
ice-hearted adj.
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1810 Gentleman's Mag. May 463/2 When Death, ice-hearted, brings the common doom.
1950 G. Barker News of World 49 Just as the ice-hearted stars Stand around like avatars.
2006 Hotdog Nov. 63/1 Wannabe journalist..is seduced by the superficial glamour of fashion bible Runway and its ice-hearted, egomaniacal empress.
C6. Objective.
ice-blasting n.
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1859 F. L. M'Clintock Voy. ‘Fox’ i. 9 Powder for ice-blasting, rockets, maroons, and signal-mortar were furnished by the Board of Ordnance.
1999 Times (Nexis) 6 Sept. He honed his ice-blasting skills while hunting whales in the Arctic.
ice-cutting n.
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1842 Yearbk. Facts in Sci. & Art 10 (title) Ice-cutting steam-boat.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 229 The only obvious employment, except wood-chopping, ice-cutting, or the like business.
1908 Westm Gaz. 29 May 2/1 The ice-cutting looks so like harvesting or hay-making.
1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 75 Few remember the days of ice-cutting.
1991 Philadelphia Inquirer 3 May d3/4 The oil industry provided..ice-cutting machinery that didn't work.
ice-getting n.
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1786 G. Washington Diary 24 Jan. (1978) IV. 266 Began my work of Ice-getting.
1915 Electr. Rev. 4 Dec. 1005/3 Last year the Walker Ice Company, of Worcester, Mass., adopted the improved method of ice-getting, with excellent results in the saving of time and labor.
ice-haunting n.
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1831 Edinb. Rev. 53 343 Ice-haunting..species.
a1971 J. C. Beaglehole Life Captain Cook (1992) xiii. 313 He bore away south-east close along the ice-edge, noting the whales, the penguins and other ice-haunting birds.
ice-loving adj.
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1827 S. Melmoth Confessions of Cuthburt 31 In duels how many are slain, From Georgia to ice-loving Maine, Though certain, possession to miss?
1998 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 29 July a4 A protein produced by the ice-loving flounder could soon make its way into ice cream to prevent frost from forming large, damaging ice crystals.
ice-making adj.
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1834 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. Conjoined Ser. 3 264 List of Patents. Granted by the French Government from the 1st of April to the 30th of June, 1833... Koymans, Henri Antoine, of Paris, for an ice making machine.
1864 Chambers's Jrnl. 13 Feb. 101/1 The attention of some millions of persons was attracted, in the International Exhibition of 1862, to two ice-making machines of a very remarkable character.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxviii. 453 Ethyl chloride..condenses readily to a liquid boiling at 14°; owing to the cold produced by its evaporation, this liquid is used as a local anæsthetic and in ice-making machines.
1980 H. Jacques in M. Danby Entertaining with Stars 56 Cover with clingfilm and put into the freezer or the ice-making compartment of the refrigerator for 30 minutes before serving.
ice-shattering adj.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vi. 64 A smart ice-shattering breeze, to open a road for us.
1997 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 18 June e1 A $20 Batmobile comes equipped with ice-shattering missiles and attack blades to cut through jungle vines.
C7. Similative.
ice-clear adj.
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1860 G. Huntington Shadowy Land 16 He, mounted, rushes like a direful star That bursts in winter's ice-clear heavens And makes the traveler start.
1946 S. Spender European Witness ii. iii. 146 The ice-clear light of that part of Germany.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 204 Once or twice, blurt your ice-clear sentence.
2007 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 1 July 5 This chrome-plated chandelier has a collection of sparkling, ice-clear glass droplets wrapped up in a gorgeous, black organza shade.
C8. Special Combinations.
ice action n. Geology the action of ice upon the surface of the earth, esp. during glacial periods.
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1844 C. Darwin Let. 10 Oct. in Corr. (1987) III. 64 I by no means underrate the importance of your observations on the ice-action over the many hills, through which you have lately travelled.
1926 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 34 205 At the shore of the bay the only evidence of ice action consists of a few bowlders scattered over hills of rhyolite penetrating slaty sandstone.
2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 19 June 8 A mini Alpine landscape of scree slopes, crags and arêtes, showing that ice action has played its part in the destruction of this mountain.
ice anchor n. a grapnel for holding a ship to an ice floe; cf. ice claw n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > grapnel > for holding on to ice-floe
ice hook1694
ice anchor1748
1748 H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's-Bay 142 We made fast to a very large Piece of it [sc. ice] with several Ice Anchors and Ropes.
1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 59 The ice being all round us, we got out our ice-anchors, and moored along-side a field.
1880 Standard 20 May 3 The vessel will..‘hook on’ with an S-shaped ice-anchor to the floe alongside.
1992 W. Steger & J. Bowermaster Crossing Antarctica i. 16 Victor released the ice anchor that held my frantically tugging dogs.
ice apron n. (a) = ice guard n. (a) (now rare); (b) an outspread deposit of ice at the foot of a glacier or slope; cf. apron n. 4i.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > parts of
pierlOE
bridge foota1450
heada1450
staddling1461
foota1500
bridge end1515
jowel1516
causey1523
starling?c1684
rib1735
spur1736
icebreaker1744
jetty1772
cutwater1776
roadway1798
sleeper1823
water-breaker1823
centrya1834
stem1835
suspension-tower1842
cantilever1850
semi-beam1850
pylon1851
half-chess1853
span1862
sway-bracing1864
needle-beam1867
ice apron1871
newel1882
flood-arch1891
needle girder1898
sway-brace1909
trough flooring1911
1871 Rep. Engineer-in-Chief Illinois & St. Louis Bridge Co. 1870 41 The ice-aprons were two hundred feet long and sixty feet wide.
1910 Geogr. Jrnl. 35 273 Above the ice apron and within the range, the piedmont glacier bears a close resemblance to the valley type.
1967 Proc. 12th Congr. Internat. Assoc. Hydraul. Res. 4 ii. 268 Experiments confirm that the ice pressure on a pier with an inclined ice apron is appreciably less than on a pier with a vertical ice apron.
2004 A. Selters Ways to Sky 202/2 They made reasonably swift progress on an ice apron at the edge of the face's hanging glacier.
ice arm n. an arm or projecting portion of ice.
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1864 J. Hunt tr. C. Vogt Lect. on Man xi. 324 The facts are thus summarised by Kjerulf... ‘At the time of the greatest extension of the ice sea, the Scandinavian-Finnish continent was an island, whilst a broad ice arm connected the present Polar sea, and the White sea with the Baltic.’
1928 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 11/5 He..had mistaken the Frederikshaab ice arm for the Sukkertoppen ice arm.
a1976 ‘J. Tiptree’ Meet me at Infinity (2000) 209 The ice-arm behind the hand was seven miles long; the shoulder was an enormous icefall.
ice-auger n. an auger (manual or power-driven) for boring large holes in ice, esp. used in ice-fishing; = ice-drill n.
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1873 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 June 650/1 Ice-Auger.—William A. Clark, New Haven, Conn. Application filed April 17, 1873.
1963 Boys' Life Jan. 18/2 The ice auger, which looks and works much the same as a carpenter's brace and bit, will cut [fishing-]holes faster, neater and with less effort than a spud.
1997 A. M. Jones Quiet Place of Violence iii. i. 135 I..carry my ice-auger and box of sets out away from the shore.
ice axe n. (a) an axe for cutting through ice; spec. a tool used by mountaineers for cutting holds in ice; (b) an implement for cutting ice for commercial or domestic purposes; = ice-pick n. (a).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of
runner1688
runner ring1791
ice axec1800
alpenstock1829
rope1838
climbing-iron1857
piolet1868
snap-link1875
prickera1890
middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892
chock1894
glacier-rope1897
piton1898
run-out1901
belaying-pin1903
snap-ring1903
ironmongery1904
line1907
Tricouni1914
ice claw1920
peg1920
sling1920
ice piton1926
ice hammer1932
karabiner1932
rock piton1934
thread belay1935
mugger1941
running belay1941
piton hammer1943
sky-hook1951
etrier1955
pied d'éléphant1956
rope sling1957
piton runner1959
bong1960
krab1963
rurp1963
ice screw1965
nut1965
traverse line1965
jumar1966
knife-blade1968
tie-off1968
rock peg1971
whammer1971
Whillans whammer1971
Whillans harness1974
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > utensils for making ice
icemaker1775
ice-pick1851
ice plane1875
ice axe1960
c1800 T. Curtis in D. C. Harvey Journeys Island of St. John (1955) 44 Then one of us took the Ice axe this being upright with a long handle.
1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 44 The ice-axes they carried.
1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 69 It was the magic of his [sc. an ice-vendor's] skill in using an ice-axe that enthralled me.
1963 I. Deutscher Prophet Outcast v. 504 He [sc. Trotsky] grappled with the murderer, bit his hand, and wrenched the ice-axe from him.
1994 Outdoor Canada Mar. 22/3 Five guys were sitting around in long underwear, eating Kraft dinner, filing ice axes and watching re-runs of The Fugitive.
ice bag n. = ice pack n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > ice packs and water bags > [noun]
ice cap1816
ice bag1836
ice compress1858
water bag1859
water-cloth1860
ice pack1874
kneecap1884
cold coil1888
cold-pack1909
1836 Dublin Jrnl. Med. Sci. 9 227 She endeavours to throw the ice bags off her head, and requires some violence to hold her in bed.
1920 E. Ferber Half Portions iv. 129 An ice bag on your head and real quiet for two-three days. You'll come round fine.
2006 P. Cleage Baby Brother's Blues xvi. 90 He always kept an ice bag in the refrigerator for after football practice and he went to get it now.
ice banner n. originally U.S. (a) a decorative pattern or shape made from the formation of ice crystals, esp. on a surface; spec. = ice feather n. (now rare); (b) a banner carved as an ice sculpture.
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1884 Science 25 Apr. 523/2 Ice-banners are evidently formed from the vapor of passing clouds... He thinks that possibly the base of a cloud-banner might be found to be an ice-banner.
1895 G. A. J. Cole Open-air Stud. ii. 39 The ice-crystals have been deposited as such out of the atmosphere, accumulating one on another, the ice-banner sometimes pointing in the teeth of the wind.
1997 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 17 Jan. The penguin was carved from a block of ice in central London and stood temporarily on top of a carved ice banner reading ‘Our home is melting, save it’.
2002 E. Adler tr. in New Eng. Rev. Spring 9 These plumes of ice-banner in the piercingly blue sky.
ice beam n. a beam placed at the stern or bow of a ship to resist the pressure of ice; cf. ice ram n.
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1779 Universal Mag. Jan. 82/2 The ice-beam of the Victory.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 191 Oak-timbers, called ice-beams, about 12 inches square and 25 feet in length are placed beneath the hold beams.
1999 J. P. Delgado Across Top of World viii. 185/2 Massive 11½-inch-thick horizontal ice beams braced the inside of the hull.
ice bear n. the polar bear, Ursus maritimus.
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1800 M. Robinson tr. J. Hager Picture of Palermo 9 The North Pole..; where the ice-bear, the sea calf, and the sea horse, with their hideous forms, are heard roaring terrifically.
1875 R. Brown in T. R. Jones Man. Nat. Hist., Geol., & Physics Greenland i. 15 The well-known ‘Polar’ or ‘Ice Bear’ is found along the whole coast of Greenland from north to south.
1932 Geogr. Jrnl. 80 5 Numerous tracks were found in the loose sand between the boulders, tracks of ice bears, wolves, and foxes.
2009 Believer Nov. 37/1 I would take overexposed photographs of my surroundings with my digital camera in order to check for ice bears.
† ice-bearer n. Physics Obsolete = cryophorus n.; cf. frost-bearer n. at frost n. Compounds 4.
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1831 Elements Chem. ii. 104 Dr. Wollaston's cryophorus, or ice-bearer, illustrates the same general facts.
1873 G. F. Rodwell Dict. Sci. (new ed.) 183 The instrument for this reason has received the name of ice-bearer, or carrier of cold.
ice bed n. (a) a layer or stratum of ice; (b) Geology a stratified glacial deposit.
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1811 Literary Panorama Dec. 1018 The ice beds of the Sulitelma are extremely clear, and almost transparent.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 421 A brig, high and dry, spending an Arctic winter over an Arctic ice-bed.
1885 E. C. Agassiz Life Louis Agassiz I. 289 The ancient ice-beds and moraines of England.
1960 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 50 219 On Saturday morning we climbed to the ice-beds in White Rock Park.
2000 Daily Tel. 25 July 4/2 In the States [sc. in supermarkets] the fruit is on ice beds but here it is not.
ice beer n. [in early use after German Eisbock Eisbock n.] a type of mild, light lager which has been filtered at sub-zero temperatures; (in early use) = Eisbock n.
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1991 ‘Ice Beer’? in rec.food.drink (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Feb. On a recent trip to Germany (my only trip) someone mentioned to me that there was a barley product known as Ice Beer.
1993 Vancouver Sun 21 May a17 I'm not sticking around to chill out over ice beer and the carefully cultivated cynicism of newspaper shop talk.
2001 S. Walton Out of It (2002) p. xviii The export-strength lagers that became conspicuously popular in the 1980s have been followed by ice-beers.
ice belt n. a belt or narrow area of ice; esp. = ice foot n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > projection of
ice belt1840
ice tongue1856
ice foot1917
ram1952
1840 J. Pardoe City of Magyar III. xvi. 269 The passenger seats himself in the little bark moored under the bank, and the crew immediately commence dragging him over the ice-belt towards the centre of the current.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. viii. 78 The little brig was fast to the ice-belt which lined the bottom of the cliffs.
1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 61 5 The characteristics of the glacier-cap..are a snow or névé cap above the snow-line (area of feeding) and an ice-belt below the snow-line (area of fusion).
2004 D. Mercy Beserk viii. 152 Conditions worsened as we headed south and before long we noticed a thick white obstacle across our path: our first major ice belt.
ice bicycle n. now chiefly historical a bicycle adapted for use on ice.
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1884 Boston Daily Globe 20 Jan. 2/4 The new patent ice bicycle on which it is claimed a person can perform a tremendously long journey, over ice and frozen snow, with but little fatigue.
1897 Outing Jan. 343/2 Ice-bicycles, in which a runner is substituted for the front wheel, and the rear wheel is bound with a steel or iron rim, set with sharp teeth.
1925 Pop. Mech. Nov. 854/1 (caption) Side view of the ice bicycle, showing details of steering equipment..and other parts.
2002 C. des Garennes Great Little Museums of Midwest i. 26 Other bikes [in the bike museum] might make you say ‘Huh?’ such as an ice bicycle with studded tires developed in Hungary.
ice blindness n. = snow-blindness n.
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1866 W. Wilson Newfoundland & its Missionaries ii. x. 277 A phial containing a solution of the sulphate of zinc, in case of ice-blindness.
1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 538/1 Snow- or ice-blindness, is a variety of nyctalopia.
1914 Yachting Jan. 345/2 In addition..there are the danger from blizzards, of ice blindness and frost bite.
2003 L. Niven & B. Cooper in L. Niven Scatterbrain 186 As they climbed out of the Shuttle, Althared darkened his faceplate against ice blindness.
ice block n. (a) a block of solid ice, (in later use esp.) an ice cube; also figurative; (b) Australian and New Zealand = ice lolly n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > block
ice block1742
block-ice1881
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice > ice-lolly
popsicle1923
fudgsicle1938
ice block1948
iced lolly1949
ice lolly1949
pop1951
lollipop1953
paleta1957
1742 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 574/2 These Ice Blocks were rais'd with Pulleys, and regularly laid on each other, and their Joints cemented with Water.
1814 Caledonian Mercury (Edinb.) 19 Feb. 3/3 The North Inch, and all the banks of the river are strewed with vast ice blocks.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvi. 218 There it was, with the gangway stairs of ice-block masonry.
1948 C. B. Maxwell Cold Nose of Law 45 Her father..had given her a paper-wrapped ice-block, a brilliant green water-ice.
1958 Church Times 3 Jan. 3/1 Hopes of some thaw in the international ice-block rose with the publication of warm greetings of peace and goodwill sent by the Russian leaders.
1962 J. R. Bernard in Southerly 22 97 Without loss we add to..the meaning of..ice-block that of frozen confection.
1990 S. Johnson Flying Lessons iii. 21 His arms flung out from his body, we went round and round till the sky began to move, and he sicked up the red ice-block he had just eaten.
2000 B. Segal Whisper Awhile 20 Beware the donkeys..with dripping ice blocks in panniers.
ice-blue adj. and n. (a) adj. that is of a very pale blue colour; (b) n. this colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > light blue
watchetc1405
vessey colour1562
fesse1587
Venice blue1598
Turkey colour1661
powder blue1752
Eton blue1851
ice-blue1851
periwinkle blue1852
Cambridge blue1858
baby blue1861
starch blue1875
duck's egg1876
pervenche1876
opal blue1881
periwinkle1895
pervenche blue1898
harebell blue1909
horizon-blue1919
Nattier blue1923
zircon blue1928
Mary blue1943
1851 G. Meredith Poems 74 Should thy love die; O bury it not under ice-blue eyes!
1877 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 24 Mar. 8/6 (advt.) Cashmere evening shawls in ice blue, sky blue,..scarlet, salmon pink, and attractive combinations.
1935 Notes & Queries 5 Jan. 7/2 From a draper's catalogue for the coming winter sales, I cull a few names of colours to me at least new: Ice-blue, [etc.].
1970 W. Smith Gold Mine xxv. 57 His office was in white and ice-blue.
2004 S. Olson Children of God go Bowling xiii. 125 He is wearing an ice-blue cashmere pullover.
ice boulder n. (a) a large rounded block of ice; (b) Geology a boulder transported by glacial action.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvii. 438 One was a conglomerate of great ice-bowlders, stained of a dark tint, but cemented together by ice that was perfectly clear.
1887 J. A. Harvie-Brown & T. E. Buckley Vertebr. Fauna Outer Hebrides p. xvii Here Dr. Heddle discovered a very remarkable ice-boulder, which had evidently been borne from a seam in a hill-side on the mainland of Harris, about three miles distant to the north-west.
1921 A. W. Grabau Comprehensive Geol. I. xvi. 505 As ice boulders may be buried in such a delta, kettleholes may develop subsequently by their melting.
1995 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 125 120 Rectangular dry-stone leacht, ruined, on a low knob of outcrop... On its centre stands a plain ice-boulder 70cm in height.
2003 N. Watson Dundee Whalers i. 27 The stricken Dundee ship was five miles away and could be reached only by a highly hazardous trek across ice boulders.
ice bucket n. a bucket for holding ice, esp. one in which bottles of wine, etc., are placed in order to cool their contents; cf. ice-pail n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > water- or wine-cooler
keelerc1440
keel-vat1552
gargolette1650
ice-pail1699
water cooler1807
ice bucket1821
sarcophagus1833
cooler1838
olla1844
psykter1848
champagne bucket1874
monkey-pot1884
koozie1979
1821 Morning Post 14 Aug. 1/3 (advt.) Patterson's ice bucket, for preserving Ice for several days.
1919 J. M. Barrie Alice Sit-by-the-Fire ii. 61 Supper for two, champagne in an ice-bucket.
1959 N. Marsh False Scent (1960) iv. 94 Gantry tipped some [water] out of the ice bucket.
2002 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 26 Oct. b28 It's an airy cafe-like space,..with paper-clothed tables, stylish chrome and wood chairs, and individual ice buckets.
ice calk n. North American = calk n.1 2; frequently in plural; cf. ice creeper n.
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1863 Sci. Amer. 29 Aug. 140/3 Heel Iron and Ice Calk.
1925 Boys' Life Jan. 13/1 He is disentangling himself from a network of shirts, ice calks, socks, snowshoes and the rest of it, and deciding where he is going and who he wants to trot along.
2000 C. Thayer Certain Slant of Light v. 42 He is glad he left the ice-caulks on her shoes.
ice calorimeter n. Physics (now freq. historical) a calorimeter in which the melting of ice is used to measure the amount of heat released by a chemical reaction or physical process.
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1826 N.-Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 75 This whole apparatus was to be immersed in a water-calorimeter, which, for many reasons, was preferred to an ice-calorimeter.
1913 Science 7 Mar. 381/1 The heat evolved when water wets dry wood has been studied with the Bunsen ice calorimeter.
2002 J. Gribbin Scientists (2004) vii. 280 The guinea pig was placed in a container surrounded by ice, all inside a larger container (the whole thing is known as an ice calorimeter).
ice canoe n. a canoe adapted or designed for use on frozen lakes or rivers.Early ice canoes have iron runners, whereas more recent ones are made of moulded fibreglass.
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1876 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 28 Oct. 5/3 Boats, sledges, tents, ice canoes and saws, ice poles, ice anchors,..and gear of every conceivable kind were provided.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Jan. 8/6 Some events [at Quebec's Carnival]..include: The carni broomball tournament..the slide motorbike racing,..the ice-canoe race across the St. Lawrence.
2003 Canad. Geographic Trav. & Adventure Winter 15/2 (heading) This event attracts four-person teams from around the world, who..test their endurance and skill on everything from..cross-country skis to mountain bikes and ice canoes.
ice car n. (a) a vehicle adapted or designed to be driven on ice (rare); (b) a refrigerated lorry or railway wagon adapted for the transport of ice or perishable goods.
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1809 Friend 28 Dec. 302 The lower Lake is now all alive with Scaters, and with Ladies driven onward by them in their ice cars.
1834 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania Jan. 50/2 During the season of its distribution and sale, much of the night and early morning must be employed in loading and despatching the Ice Cars under his supervision.
1853 Pennsylvania Farm Jrnl. Nov. 280/1 In ice houses on vessels, fresh provisions, are kept safe for many weeks, and ice cars or refrigerators, could readily be constructed for transporting poultry, fresh moat choice fruits, game, &c., on a large scale.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 560/2 In Canada there is also a special ice-car service for the carriage of butter to Montreal.
2004 R. H. Schleicher Big Bk. of Lionel iv. xv. 201/1 The blocks are moved down a chute to be unloaded through the door in the side of the ice car.
ice cart n. (a) a cart in which ice is conveyed for delivery (now chiefly historical); (b) a refrigerated cart from which ice cream and similar refreshments are sold (chiefly U.S.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > ice
ice cart1821
1821 Liverpool Mercury 5 Jan. 222/4 A child, six years of age,..was knocked down by an ice-cart, when one of the wheels went over her head, and crushed it.
1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 247 Every morning the ice-cart comes round.
1873 Young Englishwoman July 334/1 Ice-carts call as regularly as does the baker.
1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 139 Then block after block the big freckled man..wandered the lovely New Orleans night till he found an ice-cart.
1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xxxviii. 362 He..saw Ellis holding court on the patio. Champagne was cooling on an ice cart.
2002 M. McGrath Silvertown (2003) iv. 35 On their return Frenchie buys them all an ice cream from Delamura's ice cart.
ice cataplasm n. [after French cataplasme à la glace (1829 or earlier)] now rare or disused = ice pack n. 2.
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1851 R. P. Gillies Mem. Lit. Veteran I. xii. 190 Typhus and small-pox still had their numberless victims. Instead of ice-cataplasms for the head, and currents of cold fresh air through the apartments, flannel nightcaps heated at the fire, windows closed, and blankets multiplied—such had been our prevailing practice.
1886 Mass. Med. Jrnl. 6 320 In incipient peritonitis the following treatment obtains: Ice pills; ice cataplasms on abdomen; opium by the rectum, and quinine by rectum.
1915 C. W. Burr et al. tr. H. Curschmann Text-bk. Nerv. Dis. I. ii. 100 Water or ice bags, ice cataplasms and especially compress bandages may be applied.
ice cellar n. chiefly North American a cellar or pit kept cool by refrigeration (traditionally by blocks of ice) and used to preserve food and other stores; cf. ice pit n.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun]
cellar?c1225
larderc1305
pantrya1325
butleryc1325
spencec1386
larder-house1390
aumbrya1398
lardinera1400
meatfettle1440
spinde1481
selyer1483
pantyr?a1500
vault1500
eschansonnery1514
lardrya1552
lard-house1555
coveyc1593
brine-house1594
dispense1622
reservatory1647
provedore1694
ice cellar1735
spring house1755
provision house1787
futtah1834
pataka1842
1735 N. Tindal tr. D. Cantemir Hist. Growth & Decay Othman Empire II. iv. 327 Whether there could possibly be a cooler place any where in July than that ice-cellar?
1771 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. III. 232 Some of the people of quality make use of ice-cellars, to keep beer cool.
1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land vi. 82 They even went down into the ice-cellar, where the meat is kept.
1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 May 395/2 Seeds of maple and wheat have been observed growing into blocks of ice in an ice-cellar.
2004 National Geographic Sept. 33/1 Brower takes me to his family's traditional ice cellars..and points out how his stores of muktuk—whale skin and blubber—recently began spoiling.
ice-chair n. a chair fitted with runners so as to be propelled easily upon ice; a sledge-chair.
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1851 Internat. Mag. Lit., Sci. & Art 1 June 363/1 Give me two of those bear-skins you placed upon the ice-chairs; it is all that is necessary.
1913 A. B. Emerson Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp xi. 88 The boys took turns in pushing her about in an ice-chair.
2011 Chinadaily.com.cn (Nexis) 12 Jan. It costs 10 yuan to walk onto the frozen lake, and 20 yuan or 30 yuan to rent an ice-bike, ice-chair or modified amusement park-style bumper car.
ice chamber n. a compartment containing, or cooled by, ice; a refrigerating or freezing chamber.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for
ice room1758
ice chamber1768
icebox1792
cool chamber1801
ice chest1826
freezer1847
refrigerator1861
chill-room1884
ice cave1884
cold store1895
cool store1906
Coolgardie?1924
fridge1926
Frigidaire1926
deep freeze1941
chest freezer1947
hydro-cooler1947
reefer1958
fridge-freezer1971
flash freezer1984
blast freezer1986
1768 P. Playstowe Gentleman's Guide in Tour through France (ed. 3) xi. 103 In the ice chamber, you see S. John in the Isle of Patmos.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1161/2 Ice-chest, a form of domestic ice-chamber having apartments for the ice and the provisions, the food-chamber being cooled by air..from the ice-box or by the cold side of the latter.
1893 W. E. Gladstone in Hansard's Parl. Deb. IX. 4th Ser. 281 In our great sea-going ships there is always an apartment known as an ice-chamber.
1987 M. Atwood in Saturday Night Jan. 146/3 Plastic-hulled superboats are not old days, but ten-horse-power outboard motors, circa 1945, are. There's an icebox in the back porch,..a simple utilitarian model.., ice chamber in the top section, metal shelves in the bottom one.
ice chest n. chiefly North American a refrigerated chest or other storage compartment; a refrigerator, icebox.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for
ice room1758
ice chamber1768
icebox1792
cool chamber1801
ice chest1826
freezer1847
refrigerator1861
chill-room1884
ice cave1884
cold store1895
cool store1906
Coolgardie?1924
fridge1926
Frigidaire1926
deep freeze1941
chest freezer1947
hydro-cooler1947
reefer1958
fridge-freezer1971
flash freezer1984
blast freezer1986
1826 Aurora & Franklin (Philadelphia) Gaz. 20 Mar. 3/4 (advt.) At 11 o'clock, in the furniture rooms, No 32 South Front street, from the house of a gentleman leaving the city, consisting of..1 elegant refrigerator or ice chest; fancy and windsor chairs.
1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever v. 191 Milk..should be..kept in the ice-chest.
1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country xxiv. 359 Young Merryweather..thought the place like an ice chest.
2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 264 An ice chest with sandwiches and Tru-Ade for Gilby, plus four bottles of Margaux from the Tivoli wine cellar.
ice chimney n. chiefly Mountaineering a chimney (chimney n. 8) or vertical cleft formed in ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > ice-chimney
ice chimney1861
1861 Christian Remembrancer Oct. 363 Professor Tyndall's adventure, to which we shall have to refer, in the ice chimney at the Matterhorn was sufficiently exciting.
1929 F. Smythe Climbs & Ski Runs xv. 293 The ice-chimney continued for some distance with great difficulty.
1955 J. E. B. Wright Technique of Mountaineering v. 97 Ice chimneys may be pitches in couloirs and icefalls.
2010 Observer (Nexis) 28 Nov. (Mag.) 13 A 1,000ft climb that..breaches a band of rock through a dreadful ice chimney, and concludes with 400ft of steep snowfield.
ice chisel n. a chisel used for cutting through ice or for splitting ice blocks.
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1682 Minutes Hudson's Bay Co. (1946) I. 252 The ice chissels nor indeed no other iron worke that you send over is made to their minds.
1791 P. Fidler Jrnl. in Publ. Champlain Soc. (1934) 21 498 They had a few Beaver skins with them, with hatchets, Ice chisels &c.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 468 While three men were out on a low berg..one of them..struck his ice-chisel against the mass.
1997 Herald-Sun (Durham, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 6 Apr. b1 [She] shot a burglary suspect after he threw a 12-inch ice chisel at her leg.
ice claw n. (a) a metal claw for grappling and for lifting blocks of ice; (also) = ice anchor n. (now chiefly historical); (b) Mountaineering = crampon n. 3.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of
runner1688
runner ring1791
ice axec1800
alpenstock1829
rope1838
climbing-iron1857
piolet1868
snap-link1875
prickera1890
middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892
chock1894
glacier-rope1897
piton1898
run-out1901
belaying-pin1903
snap-ring1903
ironmongery1904
line1907
Tricouni1914
ice claw1920
peg1920
sling1920
ice piton1926
ice hammer1932
karabiner1932
rock piton1934
thread belay1935
mugger1941
running belay1941
piton hammer1943
sky-hook1951
etrier1955
pied d'éléphant1956
rope sling1957
piton runner1959
bong1960
krab1963
rurp1963
ice screw1965
nut1965
traverse line1965
jumar1966
knife-blade1968
tie-off1968
rock peg1971
whammer1971
Whillans whammer1971
Whillans harness1974
1848 Illustr. London News 13 May 318/2 (caption) 1. Ice saw. 2. Ice hatchet. 3. Ice chisel. 4. Ice anchor. 5. Ice pole. 6. Ice claw. 7. Ice hook.
1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft vii. 286 Any man who wishes to make big ascents is well advised if he begins early to learn how to use ice-claws (or crampons).
1955 G. Band Road to Rakaposhi xii. 141 Climbers have managed for so long without these useful ‘ice-claws’ in the Himalayas.
1997 J. Krakauer Into Thin Air i. 5 Perhaps we had become a little arrogant with our fine new technique of ice-claw and rubber slipper, our age of easy mechanical conquest.
ice climber n. †(a) a piece of equipment used as an aid in ice climbing (obsolete rare); (b) a person who participates in ice climbing.
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1870 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 21 Oct. A sailor..had attached to his knees an ice-climber.., and with a battery wrought in a close-fitting air-tight copper box in his pea-jacket, upon order descended the berg.
1874 Bell's Life in London 5 Sept. 6/2 The above hints apply to walkers only, not to ice climbers.
1953 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 27 May 5/3 Both had volunteered with a brilliant New Zealand ice climber, W. G. Lowe.
2010 S. E. Brown N.Y. Waterfalls 3 New York is a popular winter destination and many falls are used by ice climbers.
ice climbing n. the action or activity of climbing glaciers, ice faces, etc., esp. as a sport or pastime.
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1861 Alpine Byways iii. 24 The younger one carried ropes and a hatchet,..showing that some real ice-climbing might be expected.
1917 Recreation Aug. 96/2 Nor, indeed, had we the ice-climbing equipment for such an undertaking.
2000 New Scientist 29 Apr. 21/2 As well as being voted the craziest skier in North America, she rock climbs, paraglides and dabbles in ice climbing.
ice closet n. chiefly U.S. (now rare) an ice chamber or ice chest; a refrigeration unit, an icebox.
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1822 T. Gill in Techn. Repository 2 57 Most families are furnished with an ice-closet, in which they keep cool their milk, butter, cream, meat, &c. during the heat of their summers.
1823 New Eng. Farmer 15 Nov. 125/2 I herewith hand you a sketch of my ice closet attached to my ice house.
1997 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 1 June g14 When I'm in a hurry, I chuck my wonderful little labels that..tell the date the item entered the ice closet.
ice clothes n. clothing suitable for wearing in icy conditions or when travelling on the ice.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 249 The ice-clothes ready for a jump.
1908 Pop. Mech. June 397/2 This is the time when the sportsman dons his ‘ice clothes’,..and begins his campaign against the wisest specimen of the feathered tribe.
ice cloud n. a cloud consisting of ice crystals.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific types of cloud
ice cloud1830
nacreous cloud1909
mother-of-pearl cloud1932
rotor cloud1954
wave cloud1959
1830 Belfast News-Let. 1 Jan. 1/5 Return from the hill, where the ice cloud is sleeping.
1872 Smithsonian Rep. 1870 442 Clouds are therefore distinguished into snow-clouds and ice-clouds, of which the constituent particles are more or less congealed.
1963 D. Irving Destr. Dresden iii. i. 106 Ice clouds were blanketing Europe.
2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. viii. 105 Optical effects such as halos, undersuns, and sundogs are invariably found in ice clouds.
ice coffee n. = iced coffee n. (b) at iced adj. Compounds.Quot. 1852 is from a reprinted excerpt from G. Murray & H. Morley Roving Englishman in Househ. Words (1852) 24 Jan. 23/2, where the term used is iced coffee.
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1852 Tioga (Wellsboro, Pa.) Eagle 24 June 1/1 I take cold fish for breakfast, and ice coffee.
1857 C. Pierce Househ. Manager 180 Lemonade, orangeade, claret-cups, sherry-cups, negus, ice-coffee, and other such refreshments.
1922 C. S. Parker Working with Working Woman vi. 195 Soon a waiter slipped a glass of ice coffee, rich in cream and sugar, under my counter.
2011 J. Han We'll always have Summer (2012) liii. 263 She was carrying a brown paper bag and an ice coffee.
ice colour n. [so called because the solutions originally used needed to be kept ice-cold] chiefly Chemistry (now historical) any of a class of insoluble azo dyes which are formed directly on fibre by impregnating it with one component of the dye (naphthol or a naphthol derivative) and then immersing it in a solution of the other (a diazo compound).
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > types of dyes
pallOE
sanders1329
raddlea1350
nutgallc1450
bark1565
logwood1581
sanders-wood1615
catechu1682
cate1698
cachou1708
valonia1722
India wood1742
cutch1759
alizari1769
standard1808
iron buff1836
colorine1838
acid dye1840
garancin1843
French tub1846
suranji1848
morindin1849
water blue1851
union dye1852
indigo-carmine1855
hernant1858
pigment colour1862
rosaniline1862
rose aniline1862
bezetta1863
bottom1863
acid colour1873
paraphenylenediamine1873
indigo-extract1874
tin-pulp1874
phthalein1875
sightening1875
chrome1876
rose bengal1878
azo-colours1879
azine1887
basic dye1892
chromotrope1893
garance1896
ice colour1896
xylochrome1898
cross-dye1901
indanthrene1901
Lithol1903
vat dye1903
thioindigo1906
para red1907
vat colour1912
vat dyestuff1914
indanthrone1920
ionamine1922
Soledon1924
Solochrome1924
Solacet1938
indigoid1939
thioindigoid1943
fluorol1956
Procion1956
1896 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 31 Dec. 901/1 The chief obstacle to the more extended use of ‘ice colours’ in printing is the unstable nature of the diazo printing colour.
1968 E. N. Abrahart Dyes vi. 161 A small range of Ice Colours, so called because the preparation of the diazo solutions by the dyer needed ice, was built up.
1995 S. M. Burkinshaw Chem. Princ. Synthetic Fibre Dyeing 148 The replacement of 2-naphthylamine with p-nitroaniline yielded the more commercially important Para Red..in 1889 and other ‘ice colours’, obtained using 2-naphthol, were developed.
ice compress n. = ice pack n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > ice packs and water bags > [noun]
ice cap1816
ice bag1836
ice compress1858
water bag1859
water-cloth1860
ice pack1874
kneecap1884
cold coil1888
cold-pack1909
1858 Cincinnati Lancet & Observer Sept. 547 A large dose of morphine was administered immediately, and ice compresses applied to the eye.
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 29 251/2 His headaches after the ultra-violet-ray treatments were greatly relieved by ice compresses.
2004 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 1 Sept. 12 A bite from other venomous spiders, such as the red-back, is treated with an ice compress.
ice contact n. Geology a surface or deposit that was originally formed in contact with a body of ice; usually attributive, esp. in ice-contact slope.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > glacial
trail1866
valley train1892
sandr1893
ice contact1896
postglacial1928
boulder-train1967
1896 Amer. Geologist 18 152 The tracing on the ground of the ice-contacts shows that other morainal belts come into the region about Wickford from the southeast.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 438/2 Ice contact deposits outline the holes and tunnels in the last wasting of the basal ice.
1970 C. A. Lewis Glaciations Wales ii. 29 The fresh ice-contact slopes (15°–20°) and re~entrant features noted on the inner flanks of the Cors Geirch terraces are present also on their eastern side.
2002 J. Maizels in J. Menzies Mod. & Past Glacial Environments ix. 288 Meltwater is likely to become ponded behind the ice-contact slope of the fan.
ice core n. a cylinder of ice drilled out of a glacier or ice sheet (esp. one in a polar region), typically analysed to obtain information about atmospheric change over time.Ice cores may be up to several thousand meters long, representing hundreds of thousands of years of snow accumulation.
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1949 Geogr. Mag. 22 284/2 An attempt will be made..to extract an ice core 150 metres long.
1983 T. Hoyle Last Gasp (1990) 19 Nick Power's work as a glaciologist involved extracting ice cores from a mile and a third beneath the polar ice cap to investigate their fifty-thousand-year-old history.
2009 New Yorker 29 June 41/2 He offered a presentation on what ice-core records show about the sensitivity of the climate to changes in greenhouse-gas concentrations.
ice craft n. ability or skill in dealing with the ice, esp. in mountaineering or polar exploration; knowledge about survival in icy conditions, icemanship.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvii. 440 Knowing the difficulties they might encounter in the transit, and somewhat vain, I fear, of my own ice-craft, I took a boat-hook and started off to meet them.
1890 Daily News 5 Mar. 5/2 Proficiency in ice-craft grows gradually.
1923 G. D. Abraham First Steps to Climbing iv. 45 We find the Mount Everest Expedition largely composed of rock-climbing specialists whose knowledge of snow and ice-craft is almost negligible.
1955 E. Hillary High Adventure 16 Harry was New Zealand's outstanding climber, with a tremendous reputation for brilliant ice-craft.
2010 Mail Today (Nexis) 26 Dec. He enrolled at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in Uttarkashi where he got trained in ice craft, snow craft, rock climbing, map navigation, and first aid.
ice creeper n. U.S. regional (northern) and Canadian = ice calk n.; frequently in plural; cf. creeper n. 7b.
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1835 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 25 Sept. The property consists of 8 engines,..17 brushes, 38 ice creepers, 2 pair shovels and tongs,..2 trumpets, &c. &c.
1889 Montreal Daily Star Carnival No., ‘Ice Yatching’ 5/1 Ice-creepers taking the place of wading-boots.
1992 Great Lakes Fisherman Jan. 18/3 Staatsburg Manufacturing unveiled its newest ice creeper,..which is made to fit on any width shoe or boot.
ice crop n. the economic yield of ice in a single winter or from a certain place.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > yield
ice crop1842
1842 Boston Courier 10 Feb. 1/7 It cannot be longer disguised that the ice crop has failed!
1853 A. Bunn Old Eng. & New Eng. I. ii. 31 Content ourselves by observing that the ice-crop (as it is drolly called)..proved to be a fair average one.
1989 V. A. Aivazian et al. in V. P. Goldberg Readings in Econ. Contract Law viii. iv. 208 The fact that the size of the ice crop would depend upon the weather is obvious and one would expect that ice contracts would reflect this.
ice cube n. a block of ice; (in modern use) spec. a small block of ice formed in a mould in a freezer or freezing compartment and used to chill drinks.
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the world > food and drink > drink > mixers or flavourings > [noun] > ice
ice1637
ice cube1922
rock1946
1867 Exam. Papers (Marlborough Coll.) June Arithmetic Lower VIth. 2 Find the side of a square which contains an acre, and of an ice cube which weighs 1,000,000 tons, a cubic foot of ice weighing 60 lbs?
1897 M. C. Cooke Breakfast, Dinner & Supper 296 Cut the butter in inch squares, line the jar with crushed ice, and fill with butter and ice cubes.
1922 San Antonio (Texas) Express 14 June 3/8 (advt.) Frigidaire..adds much to luxury and convenience. It freezes dainty ice cubes for drinking water.
1949 Consumer Rep. June 250/1 Four medium-size ice-cube trays.
1962 J. Braine Life at Top iv. 71 She took out the ice cube tray.
2001 I. McEwan Atonement 106 As she made her way across the room she heard the tinkle of ice cubes against his glass.
ice dagger n. a sharp, projecting piece of ice; spec. an icicle; also figurative.
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1519 W. Horman Vulgaria ix. f. 103v A childe was slayne with an yse dagger [L. Paruulus stiria occisus est].
1858 E. S. Sheppard Rumour 327 Oh, the ice-daggers of conventionalism, when they strike through the fire of that slowest of the purifiers—suspense.
1897 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 616 Ice-daggers from roof-trees and deep drifts blown O'er hunting their rule maintained.
1960 R. Brindze All about Undersea Explor. vi. 73 The possibility of collision with ice daggers—or with ridges formed when ice floes collide—is an ever-present hazard of under-ice exploration.
1996 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 Feb. wup13 Who cared that..ice daggers hung from every branch and overhang.
ice dam n. a natural dam formed by ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > dam across river formed by
ice dam1726
1726 Daily Jrnl. 7 Feb. Just now our Magistrates received an Express, with Advice, that the Ice-Dams near Hartingsveld and Gornichem are broke loose.
1850 Yale Lit. Mag. June 261 The angry flood, which, as the ice dam gave way, swept off every thing movable in its path, leaving nought but the naked, silent plain.
1935 W. J. Miller Introd. Physical Geol. (ed. 3) xiv. 396 Existing ice-dam lakes are not common, and few, if any of them, are large. During the Ice Age, however, thousands of them formed and lasted only as long as the ice dams existed.
1965 G. Daniels How to be Home Electrician xi. 113 One of the most money-saving uses of electric heating tape is the prevention of ice-dams on the roof.
2003 S. Mithen After Ice xxvi. 242 Soon after that date an ice dam at its eastern edge was breached and..billions of litres of water began to flow east, into the St Lawrence River.
ice-dammed adj. blocked or held back by ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [adjective] > blocked by glacier (of river)
ice-dammed1877
1877 Geol. Mag. Feb. 75 Only one of two conclusions seems open to us; either the terraces and water-marks are old sea-margins, or else they are the margins of huge ice-dammed lakes.
1932 Times 27 Aug. 9/4 Our base camp was pitched on the marginal moraine..overlooking a little ice dammed lake.
2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus i. 65 At the height of the cold stage a massive front of ice sat over the Midlands and north London, and south of it were huge lakes filled by spring thaws and ice-dammed rivers, such as the Thames.
ice dance n. a dance performed by ice-skaters; (in later use) spec. any of various dances performed by competitive figure skaters; (also) = ice dancing n.
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1818 J. G. Lockhart tr. F. Schlegel Lect. Hist. Lit. II. xvi. 280 The old minstrelsy of the bards, the ice-dance [Ger. Eistanz], or the bear-hunt among rocks and wildernesses.
1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxiv. 210 His partners in the ice-dance would have tumbled over him if they had not..given him a wide berth.
1915 N.Y. Times 24 Oct. vi. 6/6 The ice waltz, the snowball trot.., and the polar bear hug are some of the ice dances.
1993 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 7 Nov. c1/3 We want people to know that ice dance is a sport, too.
2004 R. Samuels Kids' Bk. Figure Skating vii. 139 Like all ice dances, the Dutch Waltz is done to music that meets specific tempo requirements.
ice-dancer n. an ice-skater who participates in ice dancing.
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1884 J. E. Collins Canada under Admin. Ld. Lorne viii. 315 Each ice-dancer carrying a fire-cracker, which, waved above the head sends into the air a stream of blue, purple, white or crimson light-spheres.
1925 E. Law Dancing on Ice iii. 24 Ice-dancers..should first learn exactly what the valse-figure is.
1969 Times 15 Nov. 10/8 Only one skater now remains of that team of six brilliant ice dancers.
1997 B. O'Connor Tell her you love Her 151 In the park the trees spin like ice dancers, whoosh!
ice dancing n. the action or practice of dancing on ice while skating; spec. a form of competitive figure skating incorporating choreographed dance moves, typically performed by skaters in pairs.
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1878 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 28 Dec. 6/6 (heading) Ice dancing by torchlight... Such a gathering was witnessed..at Johnston's Pond, Ball's-bridge, has, probably, not been seen in this country for many, many years.
1925 E. Law Dancing on Ice v. 46 Invite the independent judgment of..some one who knows and understands the whole theory and practice of ice-dancing.
1969 Times 15 Nov. 10/8 The world ice dancing champions..will not be competing.
2005 New Yorker 12 Sept. 85 (caption) By the time I was supposed to resume my hockey career, I had discovered ice dancing.
ice-drift n. a mass or heap of drifted ice; (also) ice which is subject to drifting; cf. snowdrift n. 1.
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1789 W. Nicholson tr. M. A. de Benyowsky Mem. & Trav. I. 324 We were surrounded with ice-drifts.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxv. 327 The ice-drift from the southern of these had now piled itself in our way.
1867 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands III. xxxvi. 557 The strait was already filled with ice-drift.
1990 T. Crowley Louisbourg 7 The ice-drifts which menaced navigation in spring were not taken into account and they severly [sic] hampered use of the port as a naval or commercial base.
ice-drill n. = ice-auger n.
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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 349 (note) The ‘ice-axe’, with which the hole is made... Sometimes an ‘ice-drill’..is made use of for this purpose.
1904 Sc. Geogr. Mag. 20 64 By the end of the time we had broken our picks,..handles of heavy hammers lasted only a short time, and ice drills were blunted and twisted out of all reasonable shape.
2002 Field & Stream Jan. 22 (caption) Ice fishermen won't waste any time hitting the water with Jiffy ice drills in hand.
† ice drops n. Botany Obsolete rare the small, glistening, fluid-filled vesicles occurring on the leaves and stems of certain plants of the family Aizoaceae, thought to resemble drops of ice (see ice plant n. 1a).
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1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 439 Leaves large altern[ate] ovate much wavy, as are the stems and cal[yx], bespangled with ice drops, Root annual.
1842 A. Pratt Pict. Catech. Bot. i. 5 The cuticle of the ice-plant has on it a number of little clear spots, which look like ice-drops.]
ice dwarf n. Astronomy a minor planet or dwarf planet with an icy surface (cf. dwarf planet n. (c)); spec. any such object whose orbit is beyond that of Neptune.
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1991 New Scientist 13 July 24/1 According to Stem, the three outermost planets all show signs of collision with an ‘ice dwarf’ body between 1000 and 2000 kilometres in diameter.
1995 Independent 28 Mar. 21/1 The numbers found to date suggest that the total population of these ‘ice dwarfs’ must be more than 10,000.
2007 D. A. Weintraub Is Pluto a Planet? xiii. 184 When college students open their textbooks, they learn about nine planets—four earthlike planets, four gas giant planets, and the ice dwarf Pluto.
ice dyke n. Geology a crevasse or fissure filled with ice, typically in columnar form.In some cases an ice dyke results from an intrusive process resembling the formation of an igneous dyke; cf. dike n.1 9b.
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1842 Geologist 1 8 Large lakes of water are often collected in ice dikes, as at Pussay at the side of the Adie.
1914 Geogr. Teacher 7 368 When a crevasse is very old it frequently becomes filled up through the combined agency of avalanches of snow and of streams of water, forming an ice-dyke.
2007 H. M. French Periglacial Environment (ed. 3) ii. vii. 183 Ice dykes formed from water intruded upwards under pressure into permafrost along fissures are associated with segregated and/or segregated-intrusive ice.
ice elevator n. chiefly North American a machine for raising blocks of ice to a higher level (now chiefly historical).
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1868 Sci. Amer. 26 Aug. 141/1 Ice Elevator.—William T. B Reed, Chicago, Ill.
1905 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 16 Jan. 7/2 He was repairing a wheel operating an ice elevator when his clothing became caught in it and he was whirled around.
1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 16 Feb. e1 The old structure at Sycamore Place..once housed the Atlantic Ice and Coal company. The plan is to keep the original building intact, including the towers once used for ice elevators.
ice escape n. an apparatus for rescuing persons who have fallen through the ice, esp. an ice ladder or a device consisting of one or more spikes with a rope or cord attached.
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1864 Standard 6 Jan. 6/2 A number of sledge chairs and an ice escape were also taken from the stores at Windsor Castle, and conveyed to the ice in one of Mr. Thumwood's vans, for the use of the Prince and suite.
1966 F. L. Carsten Reichswehr & Politics iii. vi. 285 Another company financed by Lohmann engaged in experiments with ice-escapes, but in 1927 it went bankrupt, leaving a loss of 63,167 marks.
2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 16 Nov. f5 I prepare for the possibility of going through the ice. When I go riding on ice, I usually take a tool called Ice Escape.
ice farm n. (a) a place from which naturally frozen ice is harvested, esp. one in which the freezing of water is promoted in prepared sites; (b) a place where naturally frozen ice is stored.
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1853 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 110/1 There are many such lakes in America capable of producing equally good ice, and which are indeed used as the ice farms, if we may so term them, for home consumption.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/1 When the winter fairly sets in the scene on an ice-farm is a busy one.
1908 Sci. Amer. 25 Jan. 58/2 Natural ice making in the tropics—the peculiar ‘ice farms’ of hot Bengal.
2006 T. J. Noel Guide to Colorado Hist. Places (2007) 316 William A. Baehr, owner of the Denver Ice and Cold Storage Company, became acquainted with this stretch of the South Platte River when he built one of his ice farms here.
ice feather n. a feather-like, decorative pattern assumed by ice as it forms, as on a glassy surface or in windy conditions; chiefly in plural; cf. ice fern n.
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1877 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 28 Dec. 616/1 Upon the greater or less complete stillness of the air will depend the magnitude of the ice feathers, whose size and form are the chief element of beauty in these subjects.
1920 W. M. Conway Mountain Memories xxii. 267 We plied to and again,..reconnoitring the mountain. Its west face was a cliff of rock plastered with ice-feathers like those on Mount Hedgehog in Spitsbergen.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Feb. 16 I had ice feathers on the inside of my bedroom windows in the mornings.
ice fender n. a fender or guard which protects from damage or injury by ice.
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1832 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania Mar. 187/2 From this point, the first reach of the dam, including the ice-fender, extends into the river in an oblique direction up the stream.
1912 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. 9 Nov. 2/6 Not only is the immense dry dock to be constructed, but the ice-fender is to be built across the canal above the present works.
2008 Daily Telegram (Superior, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 8 Mar. Other than equipping his dirt bike with studded tires and ice fenders, Torgerson did not have to make many modifications.
ice fern n. a fern-like encrustation produced esp. on the surface of glass by the action of frost; frequently in plural; cf. ice feather n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost > formations
frostwork1648
ice flower1694
ice fern1848
1848 J. R. Lowell Vision Sir Launfal 18 Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf.
1855 J. R. Lowell Let. 12 Apr. (1893) I. 228 For a few moments the sun shone and lighted up all these delicate ice-ferns, which, in texture, were like those star-shaped flakes that fall from very cold clouds.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 62 Fine as ice-ferns on January panes.
1930 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 23 Nov. 6 b/5 Jack Frost had not forgotten to visit our windows, decorating them with shining ice ferns.
2010 Spectator (Nexis) 10 Jan. 18 Our teenage sons grump terribly because their rooms are in an unheated attic conversion where..the windows in the morning are adorned with ice ferns.
icefish n. a fish that frequents icy water; esp. (a) North American the capelin, Mallotus villosus (family Osmeridae) (now rare); (b) any fish of the perciform order Notothenioidei, found in the Southern Ocean and noted for their ability to withstand freezing temperatures.
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1879 L. Kumlien Contrib. Nat. Hist. Arctic Amer. 134 Small herring-like fish...They are called ‘ice-fish’ by the whalers.
1904 Board of Trade Jrnl. (Portland, Maine) Oct. 278/1 There is good fishing in all places, the larger fish are white perch,..pickerel, brown trout and capelin or ice fish.
1954 Science 24 Sept. 477/1 The haemoglobin of such fishes represents only an emergency precaution. Evidently the ‘ice fish’..are even able to dispense with this luxury.
2004 New Scientist 2 Oct. 18/1 Several organisms, including icefish and Antarctic cod, produce antifreeze proteins (AFPs) to help them survive in icy waters.
ice-fish v. [after ice-fishing n.] chiefly North American intransitive to engage in ice-fishing.
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1910 Forest & Stream 29 Jan. 182/1 Ten years ago I was ice fishing with a friend in Northern New York.
1963 Brit. Columbia Digest Nov.–Dec. 31 It'll be nothing less than wonderful if I manage to make one good steelhead trip and icefish in three lakes all winter.
2003 Wanderlust Apr. 64/1 Ever played ice golf, tried your hand at curling or ice-fished on a remote mountain lake?
ice-fisherman n. chiefly North American a person who engages in ice-fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using other methods
poundmanc1307
Petera1343
petermanc1400
fish-potter1819
sniggler1840
snatcher1878
ice-fisherman1879
guddler1880
pot fisher1890
pot fisherman1890
1879 Georgia Weekly Tel. 14 Jan. Hundreds of ice fishermen have staked out their fishing grounds.
1963 Times 12 Mar. 9/6 In most cases, the ice fisherman will avail himself (at a modest fee) of the services of a resort owner who ploughs roads across the ice and clears sites for the ice houses.
2002 Field & Stream Jan. (East ed.) 59/1 On Moosehead, ice fishermen..may use up to five traps and hand lines.
ice-fishing n. chiefly North American fishing through holes made in the ice, either commercially or for sport or survival; (also) hunting for seals in this way.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > other methods of fishing
tickling1616
twitchelling1689
yair-fishing1796
ice-fishing1842
foul-hooking1860
pointing1860
fish-wood1861
muddying1877
snatching1878
roll casting1897
jack fishing1899
cod jigging1921
free spooling1937
noodling1937
electrofishing1950
shocker1953
ghost fishing1963
catch-and-release1973
1842 R. H. Bonnycastle Newfoundland in 1842 I. ii. iv. 240 It will..not be uninteresting to engage these coast fishers, as the northern ice fishing is fast failing.
1890 T. H. Bean in Forest & Stream 35 417 (title) Ice fishing in arctic Alaska.
1907 J. G. Millais Newfoundland i. 9 Twenty years at the ‘ice fishing’ (seal hunting)..will try the strongest man.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 35/6 (advt.) Sand beach, floating dock, very private, ice fishing.
2005 Olive Mar. 128/1 As well as the usual winter sports [of Newfoundland] there's ice-fishing, iceberg-viewing, and whale- and bear-watching.
ice flow n. a flow or stream of ice; cf. ice floe n.
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1842 J. D. Forbes in Edinburgh Rev. Apr. 58 Whenever the confluence of two glacier-branches occurs, there must be an union of the moraines which bordered the sides of the respective ice-flows.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxvii. 407 The glaciers of the second period..were themselves but pigmies as compared to the gigantic ice-flows of the first period.
1924 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1921–4 B. 36 179 The ‘Central Irish Ice’..was completely indebted to the ice-flows,..of which the glaciers issuing from the Donegal Highlands were doubtless the most powerful.
2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iv. 149 They..had to rely on the rocks and pebbles that they could find locally, transported by rivers or by earlier ice flows.
ice flower n. = ice fern n. (also in extended use); frequently in plural.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost > formations
frostwork1648
ice flower1694
ice fern1848
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen ii. iii. 37 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Just as Ice flowers on our Glass-windows, get all sorts of figures.
1790 E. Darwin Bot. Garden (ed. 2) II. 163 So with pellucid studs the ice-flower gems Her rimy foliage, and her candid stems.
1846 M. Howitt tr. F. H. W. von Paalzow Citizen of Prague iii. iv. 84/1 He only found it comfortable in his own little chamber, although it was cold here as the winter came on. Turf and wood he purchased by penny-worths, and it froze great ice-flowers upon his windows.
1884 E. Fawcett Song & Story 13 Grown beneath his hand, Lilian, his orphan grandchild, seemed to some Cold as the silvery ice-flower on a pane.
1911 J. Masefield Jim Davis iii. 26 The frost had covered the window with ice-flowers, so that we could not see through the glass.
1955 Arctic Terms 42/1 Ice flower, a delicate tuft of frost or rime, resembling a fern or flower, that occasionally forms on surface sea ice around a salt crystal nucleus.
1996 M. Burgess Junk (1997) xvi. 148 Today there was another frost and all yesterday's crystals had more crystals growing up them, like fairy land. Ice flowers everywhere you look.
ice fog n. fog consisting of ice particles, freezing fog; a bank or cloud of this.
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1851 W. P. Snow Voy. Prince Albert xvii. 218 A thick ice-fog hung over the sea-horizon.
1908 tr. R. Amundsen North West Passage I. ii. 36 Those who have not seen the ice fog of the Arctic Ocean do not know what fog is.
1949 Geogr. Rev. 39 324 A hazard to aviation in interior Alaska is the occurrence of ice fogs in the immediate vicinity of towns when visibility is good elsewhere.
2006 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 May w4 Outside the window, veiled by the nightly ice fog, stand the Alps and the border with Austria.
ice fox n. the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus.
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1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. i. 15 The arctic or ice foxes are very common upon some of the New-Discovered Islands.
1852 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 22 119 The ice-fox [is] a beautiful little animal, well known to Arctic voyagers, and decidedly of Arctic character.
1929 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23 62 The mammoth examined by Vollosovich on the Sanga-Yurakh River had been spoiled by ice-foxes immediately after its death.
2005 K. Westbrook Monneypenny Diaries 147 There is..virtually no animal or insect life save the odd vagrant bird, an ice fox, a brown or polar bear, and a few lemmings.
ice front n. the margin of a glacier, ice sheet, etc.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > sheet > margin of
ice front1851
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > margin
ice front1851
1851 A. McFarland Five Months Abroad 126 What it [sc. the Mer de Glace] falls below the State House in height, should be added to the length of this gigantic ice-front of the King Glacier of the Alps.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. xv. 833 The receding ice front passed Hertford about 19,500 years ago.
2003 P. Eden Daily Tel. Bk. Weather (2005) iii. 10 In Europe the ice-front extended from the Arctic Circle in Russia..to northern Poland and northern Germany, thence northward into western Denmark, and across the central North Sea to Britain.
ice-glass n. †(a) a mineral, perhaps = isinglass n. 2 (obsolete); (b) decorative glass made with a crazed surface resembling ice; = crackle-glass n. at crackle n. Compounds 2.
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1664 R. Hubert Catal. Nat. Rarities ii. iii. 49 A large peece of Ice glasse, but it is something brittle, and is a kinde of Gipsum.
1869 Guy's Hosp. Rep. 14 159 The right membrana tympani presented a distinct bulging of circular form, occupying all the posterior superior part, and of a silvery white surface (like very fine ‘ice-glass’).
1897 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 30 June 538/1 If previously converted into ice-glass by quenching in water, the effect of opalising will be heightened.
1967 Burlington Mag. Mar. 165/1 A..problem of provenance is posed by three covered glasses of ‘goblet vase’ form in the Gambier-Parry Collection. All are of ‘ice-glass’.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 2 Apr. 110/1 Open kitchens are designed with Euro-style, matte lacquer finished cabinetry, Italian stone worktops, and ice-glass backsplashes.
ice gorge n. chiefly North American an accumulation of ice obstructing the flow of water, as in a river.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > block > choking river-bed
ice gorge1846
1846 Christian Observer 30 Jan. 19/5 The steamer Windsor..ran into an ice gorge, below the mouth of the Merrimac river.
1884 W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Mar. 514/2 An ice-gorge forming in the river..has smashed..whole fleets of them.
1919 Outing Mar. 326/3 A large cake of ice held fast by the pier is the stepping stone for the formation of an ice gorge.
2010 Express (Nexis) 14 Sept. 7 This is the moment when tough lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone almost lost her nerve over a 100ft ice gorge in the Arctic.
ice-green adj. and n. (a) adj. that is of a very pale green colour; (b) n. this colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > light green
willow-green1672
oil-green1673
lily-green1739
celadon1768
nascent green1839
ice-green1863
eau-de-nil1870
Nile green1871
absinthe1872
reseda1874
feuille1883
mignonette1883
chartreuse1884
water-green1884
mignonette-green1888
Nile1895
serpent1895
willow1922
peppermint1930
kelly1936
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland xii. 216 Now and then an ice-green wave tearing through the foam.
1864 Times 19 May 7/1 The heavens were still lighted with his rays, which turned their blue to the tenderest ice green.
1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 40 Leaves like a starry crown Are clear as the splintered star ice-green That is a crown for a negro queen.
1934 L. B. Lyon White Hare 16 The washed sky opened like an arctic rose, ice-green.
1995 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 18 Oct. c12 The dominant color..is a pale ice-green that offers a perfect cool-hued contrast to Moore's red hair.
2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 21 It would not be long before the animal's mesmerising ice-green eyes would find hers.
ice guard n. (a) U.S. a projecting structure for protecting a bridge, pier, etc., from floating ice; (b) Aeronautics (chiefly historical) a wire grid fitted in the intake of an aircraft engine, so that any ice forms on the grid rather than in the engine.
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1837 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 14 Oct. 597/3 Four dams are finished and four other require but the plank and ice guards laid, to render them complete.
1945 Brit. Patent 570,424 2/1 The filter has two air inlets, the upper inlet..fitted with an ice guard..leading to the engine air intake.
1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Feb. dc8 An arrow-shaped ice guard sits on the north side of the property to break the packs of ice that float down the bay from the Susquehanna River.
2006 I. Thirsk De Havilland Mosquito II. 141/2 Two types of ice guard attachment were employed with tropical filters.
ice-gull n. North American (now rare) the glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus, and the ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, both of which breed in the Arctic.
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1820 N. Georgia Gaz. 7 Feb. 90 Those little squealing brats, Tern, are only fit for bats; Kittiwakes and ice-gulls too, I'll no powder waste on you.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 311 Glaucous Gull. Ice Gull. Burgomaster...Arctic America; S. coastwise in winter to Middle States.
1904 Auk 21 58 The great Black-backed Gull..is at home with the Ice Gulls and Kittiwakes of Baffin Bay.
1971 Bird-Banding 42 192 This gull is so associated with arctic ice that it is locally known as the ice-gull.
ice hammer n. (a) a small hammer for breaking ice to be used in drinks; (b) a hammer used to break or cut through ice, fix pitons, etc., esp. in Mountaineering.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of
runner1688
runner ring1791
ice axec1800
alpenstock1829
rope1838
climbing-iron1857
piolet1868
snap-link1875
prickera1890
middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892
chock1894
glacier-rope1897
piton1898
run-out1901
belaying-pin1903
snap-ring1903
ironmongery1904
line1907
Tricouni1914
ice claw1920
peg1920
sling1920
ice piton1926
ice hammer1932
karabiner1932
rock piton1934
thread belay1935
mugger1941
running belay1941
piton hammer1943
sky-hook1951
etrier1955
pied d'éléphant1956
rope sling1957
piton runner1959
bong1960
krab1963
rurp1963
ice screw1965
nut1965
traverse line1965
jumar1966
knife-blade1968
tie-off1968
rock peg1971
whammer1971
Whillans whammer1971
Whillans harness1974
1848 Rep. Secretary Senate of Expenditures from Contingent Fund of Senate (U.S. Senate Misc. Document No. 7, 30th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 32 (table) 6 combs..4 looking glasses..1 ice hammer.
1849 Morning Post 16 Apr. 2/3 Commander Joseph West..has proposed a plan of fitting a steam-vessel with ice hammer and ice saws, to be worked by the shaft of the engine, for the purpose of navigating the polar regions.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 599/4 Electro-plated ice tongs and ice hammer.
1932 Mountaineering Jrnl. Dec. 100 The ice-hammer is used for chiselling steps and handholds as well as for driving in pitons.
1953 J. Hunt Ascent of Everest i. iv. 38 The more familiar gear..rope and line, pitons, snaplinks, icehammers and axes.
2000 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 11 May f2 I'm searching for a silver ice hammer that was once used in bars.
ice harvest n. = ice crop n.; the period during which the ice crop is gathered.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest > specific harvest
barley-harvest1611
Indian harvest1639
oleity1656
corn-harvest1670
ice harvest1833
1833 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 11 i. 255 At the principal stations in the Mofussil, there are regular ice-harvests.
1864 Chambers's Jrnl. 100/2 The season of the ice-harvest being short and uncertain.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 2/1 Men with horses were ploughing the ice-harvest of the river.
2010 Telegram & Gaz. (Mass.) (Nexis) 11 Mar. 1 Mr. Ethier spoke of one minister who canceled Sunday services to help with the ice harvest.
ice hotel n. a hotel formed of ice; spec. one which is constructed from blocks of ice or compacted snow and rebuilt each winter.In quot. 1970 with reference to a ruined hotel covered in ice.
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1970 G. Woodcock Odysseus ever Returning 55 It is reserved for him, when all within is clearly dead, to approximate..the condition of the ice-hotel.
1993 Winnipeg Free Press 23 Jan. c5/2 People generally stay one night.., a Swedish tourism official said, explaining that the ice hotel has no showers.
2009 D. J. Timothy & V. B. Teye Tourism & Lodging Sector xv. 240 Cold weather activities are important attractions to guests who elect to stay at ice hotels.
ice jam n. the blocking of a river or other watercourse by an accumulation of ice; the jam so formed; also figurative.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > broken ice > blocking of channel with
ice jam1832
1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 3 Nov. 709/1 The obstruction, like that formed by an ice jam in a river, only proves its cumulative and irresistible power.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man viii. 139 When ‘ice-jams’ occur on the St. Lawrence.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 8/2 The great ice-jam at Niagara.
1924 M. H. Mason Arctic Forests 246 In the depth of winter they travelled by dog-sled over the rough ice jams of Bear River.
1959 Washington Post 3 Feb. a16/1 A willingness to explore new ideas could help break the East-West ice-jam.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) i. 39 The dam..was nearly broken by an ice jam in 1996.
ice ladder n. a ladder suitable for use in icy conditions, esp. as an item of rescue equipment (cf. ice escape n.).
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1829 E. W. Brayley Londiniana II. 300 They are provided with ice ladders, ropes,..and all other necessary apparatus.
1860 All Year Round 21 Jan. 293 The man with the ice-ladder on wheels..cannot get any nearer to me.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. x. 3/1 Everything from empty oxygen cylinders to ice ladders..have accumulated on the 29,002-foot mountain from the high slopes to the base camps.
ice lane n. a passageway or corridor through the ice, esp. at sea; cf. sea-lane n. at sea n. Compounds 6a.
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1856 N. Brit. Rev. May 24/1 How merrily their long fen-runners whistled along the ice-lane,..as they towed home their new treasure in triumph.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 29 Down a cruel ice-lane, That opened as he sped, We saw dead Henry Hudson Steer, North by West, his dead.
1925 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 1 May 1/6 The Red Star liner Zeeland..is searching the ice lanes of the North Atlantic for the crippled ship.
2010 A. R. Stempel Compose Yourself! 79 Within a few weeks after Titanic sank, the precursor to the IIP [= International Ice Patrol] began the air reconnaissance of the ice lanes in the North Atlantic that continues today.
ice leaf n. English regional (now rare) the common mullein, Verbascum thapsus, with greyish woolly leaves that give the impression of being covered in frost.
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1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 274 Ice-Leaf, Wild. Verbascum Thapsus, L.—Bucks. (Marlow).
2003 J. Sanders Secrets of Wildflowers 202 Common mullein bears thick, velvety, grayish leaves that have earned it such names as ice leaf..and hare's beard.
ice ledge n. a ledge of ice; spec. = ice foot n.
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1830 in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. Nov. 145 The train of ice-fields was drifted on the shore, and..the ice-ledge was slid over the land, shoving before it the whale's carcass.
1924 Geogr. Jrnl. 64 455 Perched on an ice-ledge in roughly the same position as the camp of 1922, it had four tents.
1936 Copeia No. 3. 164 Dozens and dozens of fish could be seen under the shelving ice edge, working back and forth just under the shelter of the ice ledge.
2010 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 7 The injured climber had spent at least three hours sitting on an ice ledge nearly 4000 feet up.
ice legs n. [after sea legs n.] the ability to keep one's balance while walking or skating on ice; chiefly in to get one's ice legs.
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1854 W. B. Jerrold Brage-beaker with Swedes viii. 139 It is difficult to gain sea-legs, but to accomplish ice-legs is yet more difficult.
1931 Daily Express 21 Sept. 19/4 Among those whom I noticed ‘getting their ice legs’.
2003 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 8 Jan. b1/2 (caption) Isaiah Agnew of Madison works on getting his ice legs Monday while on a Lake Wingra outing with his mother.
ice line n. (a) the edge of a glacier or sheet ice; the latitude or altitude above which ice (esp. permanent ice) is found; (b) Physics a line in a phase diagram representing the conditions of temperature and pressure at which ice and water are in equilibrium in the absence of water vapour.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > acetimetry > chromatography > record of > a line or surface in
solidus1901
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1844 Q. Rev. Oct. Index 546 Transition from the snow to the ice line.
1871 J. C. Maxwell Theory of Heat x. 175 Professor J. Thomson..calls this the triple point, because three thermal lines meet in it—(1) the steam line;..(2) the ice line, which divides the liquid from the solid state; (3) the hoar-frost line.
1886 Science 15 Jan. 46/2 The winter ice-line generally includes the Seal Islands.
1937 M. W. Zemansky Heat & Thermodynamics xi. 177 In investigating the ice line of water at very high temperatures, Bridgman and Tammann discovered four new modifications of ice.
1979 Long Term Impact Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Climate (U.S. Dept. Energy) 127 Ice-age conditions, when the southern ice line remained in place, while the northern moved equatorward.
2004 J. M. Postma et al. Chem. in Lab. (ed. 6) 24-4/1 Calculated..the enthalpy of sublimation from the slope of the ice line segment.
ice lobe n. Physical Geography a portion of a continental ice sheet that projects from the main area.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > sheet > margin of > projection from
ice lobe1880
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1880 8th Ann. Rep. Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Minnesota 1879 73 North from the angle of adjoining ice-lobes their currents pushed against each other, and along this line of confluent ice-fields medial moraines were accumulated.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xvi. 384 The edges of the ice caps were probably never straight for any great distance, but in addition to many minor reentrants and projections along their margins there were numerous larger protrusions or ice lobes down lowlands.
2005 M. Seppälä Physical Geogr. Fennoscandia (2008) iii. 50/1 Under the actively moving ice lobes different basal moraine features were formed.
ice locomotive n. now chiefly historical a locomotive designed to travel on ice.
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1859 Pract. Mechanic's Jrnl. June 78/1 Ice steamers have lately been tried with success in North America. Perhaps they might be called with more propriety ice locomotives, as they travel upon the ice as upon a railway or hard and level road.
1906 Automotor Jrnl. 10 Mar. 301/1 Mr. C. E. S. Burch..has designed an ice locomotive, which he proposes to use instead of the dogs.
2001 R. Smith Making of Scotl. 847/1 In 1861 Hyde Park [sc. Neilson & Co. Hyde Park locomotive works] built a unique ski-equipped spiked-wheel ‘ice locomotive’ for Russia.
ice lolly n. a refreshment consisting of a water ice (occasionally also an ice cream, etc.) on a stick; cf. iced lolly n. at iced adj. Compounds, lolly n.1 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice > ice-lolly
popsicle1923
fudgsicle1938
ice block1948
iced lolly1949
ice lolly1949
pop1951
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1949 Ice Cream Topics June 12 Ice lollies or iced lollies..sell at 1d. or 2d. and capture the kiddy trade, being cheaper than cones and wafers filled with ice cream.
1957 Times 22 Aug. 8/6 They..drip ice-lollies on the desk.
1980 R. Harris in M. Darby Entertaining with Stars 17 Make some economies by buying, for example, a whole box of ice lollies or choc ices at your freezer centre—it'll be cheaper than buying them individually.
2000 J. Pemberton Forever & Ever Amen vi. 47 All he had to worry about was what time the ice-cream van was coming and whether there were enough pennies for a cornet or an ice-lolly?
† ice loon n. Obsolete rare the great northern diver or common loon, Gavia immer.
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1869 J. Bowden Naturalist in Norway 175 The great northern diver does not migrate, but remains on the water until the ice forms, wherefore it is called in Norway the iislom, or ice loon.
ice machine n. = icemaker n. 2.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > freezing agent > machine for making ice
ice machine1816
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1816 Times 15 Oct. 2/3 Buonaparte is..seldom pleased... Latterly an ice-machine has occupied much of his time.
1844 Liverpool Mercury 18 Oct. 7/1 By Master's patent ice machine, creams, jellies, &c. may be iced in two minutes, and a large solid block of ice formed from pure water in an hour in any climate.
1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xvii. 129 Is he awake? I have brought some more ice... I have a little ice-machine for Indian use.
1973 Country Life 8 Feb. 345/1 There are enough hotels..to suit any pocket. And swimming pools, air-conditioning and ice-machines are usually included.
2004 Grocer 10 Jan. 159/3 (advt.) Foster agents, new and ‘B’ grade uprights, benches, ice machines, blast chillers and freezers etc.
ice maiden n. (a) (in folklore, fairy tales, etc.) a female spirit or supernatural being associated with ice and snowy landscapes; (b) colloquial (chiefly derogatory) an unfeeling or emotionless woman; (in later use) spec. a woman (esp. a beautiful or alluring one) who is regarded as cold or unresponsive; cf. ice queen n. 2.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > person > woman
ice maiden1847
ice queen1854
Snow Queen1935
1847 M. Howitt tr. H. C. Andersen True Story my Life i. 18 ‘He is dead,’ said my mother... ‘The ice maiden [Dan. Jisjomfruen] has fetched him.’
1868 E. S. B. Sydney Life's Search i. 15 That is exactly the reason why you must never vex him by hinting such a thing to him, you dear old ice-maiden!
1877 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 3 May She..had smiled so merrily at his witticisms; but in Mr. Livingstone's society she seemed a veritable ice-maiden.
1920 ‘D. Patrick’ Wider Way i. i. 13 Those magic glades, down which flitted fairy princes and ugly sisters.., and ice-maidens.
1968 V. Canning Melting Man v. 134 Now stop doing an ice-maiden act on me. Write it off to experience.
2005 ‘C. Pike’ Shaktra xix. 252 The ice maidens come for that body, and shelter it in the ice caves.
2006 Olive Oct. 24/1 The crimes begin as soon as you arrive, when you're pointedly ignored by the ice maidens clustered around the reception desk.
ice margin n. the edge of an ice sheet or glacier; cf. ice front n.
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1843 W. Howitt tr. A. Von Chamisso Wonderful Hist. Peter Schlemihl ix. 245 A step, and I was on the ice-margin of an ocean.
1958 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) 22 As the ice-margin retreated the varves followed it.
1993 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 20 Nov. b10 Killer whales cruise the ice margins, ready to jostle any ‘frozen food’ into the water.
ice-marginal adj. (esp. of lakes and watercourses) formed or occurring along the ice front of a glacier or ice sheet.
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1899 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 7 663 Along the ice margin, lakes were found, in places, formed by the usual ice marginal processes.
1968 R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. iii. 37 Under the heading of proglacial landforms there are also the..lake-clay flats associated with the filling by sediment of ice-marginal lakes or seas.
2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 32 These rocks represent the remnants of an ‘ice marginal delta’ which was deposited along the western margin of the Cape Cod Bay lobe of the last great ice sheet to cover the Northeast.
ice mark n. Geology a scratch, groove, or other mark produced by the action of ice, esp. by glacial action during an ice age.
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1838 Rep. Board Commissioners of Public Wks. (Illinois Legislature: 11th Assembly: H.R. Doc.) 123 The base of the hill..is yet overflown to the depth of eight or ten feet at high water, as indicated by drift-wood and ice marks.
1912 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 20 193 It is difficult to realize the remote age of the ice marks.
2010 R. Lowing Notorious (2011) 430 ‘More ice marks found in the desert,’ said Laforche. ‘Strange to think all this once stood in Antarctica's place.’
ice meer n. now rare a piece or cake of ground ice, esp. in a floating or detached state; cf. frost n. 2b, grue n.5 [The identity of the second element is uncertain. It may perhaps show mere n.1, although if so the semantic motivation is unclear. Compare Old English īsmere denoting a frozen body of water (see quot. eOE at Compounds 3a).]
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1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 27 They [sc. the Oxford watermen] frequently meet the Ice-meers (for so they call the cakes of Ice thus coming from the bottom) in their very rise.
1793 Monthly Rev. Sept. 54 The stones and sand observable in the ice-meers only prove that they once adhered to the shore.
1862 C. Tomlinson Frozen Stream i. 97 The floating masses of ice collect and get fixed; thus forming a barrier to the ice-meers that come down, and contributing by this means to the congelation of the whole surface of the river.
1906 Q. Jrnl. 32 96 ‘Stock frosts’ (‘ice meers’, ‘gru’, or ‘anchor frosts’) are comparatively rare, and are only met with when the surface of the river has been exposed to very cold winds lasting for several days, and during severe frost.
ice melt n. the melting of (esp. natural) ice; (also) the meltwater resulting from this.
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1923 Geogr. Teacher 12 141 In British Columbia is an area of sufficiently rugged relief and steadier river regime (Winter rain, Spring snow, and Summer ice melt).
1950 Geogr. Rev. 40 95 Since this would have been a rise of some hundreds of feet above the probable sea level.., it must have represented a very large ice melt.
1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 128 A narrow pass, between a face of red rock sweating ice-melt and on the other side a plunging precipice.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Jan. a14/2 Never mind that even drastic world-wide reductions in carbon emissions over the next decade or so wouldn't have the slightest affect on ice melt.
ice milk n. now chiefly North American (a) a semi-soft frozen dessert, similar to ice cream but containing less milk fat; a serving of this; (b) milk which has been cooled or chilled, or which is served with ice.
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1839 Lady's Bk. Aug. 67/1 A few glasses containing ice-milks, flavoured with nothing.
1851 W. Fuller Man. Recipes for Preparing Ices 11 (heading) Plain Ice Milk.
1879 Times 9 June 6/4 There is a choice of English breakfast tea, French coffee, or ice-milk.
1942 Billboard 20 June 71/2 Novelties made of ice milk containing a lower butterfat than that required for ice cream will be all right provided that the bar is not sold as an ice cream bar.
1981 J. Webb Sense of Honor ii. iii. 98 Swenson swirled a glass of ice-milk, then grinned at Fogarty, who was sipping iced tea.
2008 M. D. Ozner Great Amer. Heart Hoax ii. i. 85 Finally, for all you ice cream junkies out there, consider fat-free ice milk or a fresh fruit sorbet.
ice mill n. Geology a place where a glacier grinds out the underlying rock by the action of loose stones.
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1866 J. Kirk Age of Man xii. 135 The gravel and sand must first have been manufactured (as we have expressed it,) from the original rocks by this vast ice-mill.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 3/1 A wedge of rounded rock, worn smooth by the vast ice-mills of the glacial epoch.
1947 Sci. News Let. 4 Jan. 7/1 The ponderous ice mills of the Pleistocene glacial epoch ground the rock into fine silt.
1998 D. E. Booth Environmental Consequences Growth iv. 59 The raw material for most of the prairie soils was either a fine-grain rock flour called loess, produced in the ice mills of the glacial rivers, or else glacial till.
ice-minus adj. Microbiology (chiefly attributive) designating a (genetically modified) strain of the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae lacking the ability to produce a particular protein which acts as a nucleation centre for ice crystals. P. syringae is a naturally occurring bacterium and is commonly present on plant surfaces; in cold weather, the ice formation it causes leads to crop damage.
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1984 Nature 5 Jan. 8/1 The application of recombinant ‘ice-minus’ bacteria requires that they outcompete naturally occurring ice-nucleating forms.
1992 Sci. Amer. June 83 The only environmental release of a modified organism approved by the RAC was the first spraying of ‘ice-minus’ bacteria, which were expected to prevent frost damage to crops, on a California strawberry field in 1986.
2010 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Jan. 3 Although the ice-minus bacteria proved safe and effective at preventing frost damage in field trials, further research was discouraged.
ice mould n. a container in which water or other contents are frozen and shaped.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > moulds or shaping equipment
mouldc1330
share mould1568
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wax-mould1849
Savoy mould1866
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moulding board1882
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injection mould1945
shell-mould1950
1781 in P. C. Moore Inventory Hartlebury Castle (1960) 79 Milk House & Dairy—8 Pewter Ice Moulds a tin 2 Stirrers 2 Skimmers.
1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain vii. 74 The leading animal is furnished with a copper bell with a wooden clapper..which is shaped like an ice-mould.
1864 Chambers's Jrnl. 13 Feb. 101/1 A continuous current through the cistern containing the ice-moulds.
1940 Amer. Cookery 45 14 Cover the ice mould with heavy waxed paper, held in place with a rubber band.
2004 H. McGee On Food & Cooking 39 Take it from the fire and pour it into your ice mould, and put it in the ice for three hours.
ice needle n. (a) an elongated, needle-like ice crystal; (b) a strong needle used to break up (a piece of) ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > icicle
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1831 M. Griffith Our Neighbourhood xii. 83 On comparing those singular perforations with the projected ice needles, I am of opinion that they are both the result of electricity.
1847 Daily Advertiser 26 May 2/2 (advt.) Ice pounders and casks. Ice needles, and every article connected with the Ice trade.
1873 Young Englishwoman July 334/1 We put in a block as large as the tin will hold, and then with an ice-needle, price one shilling, break up the rest of the ice.
1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 51 598 A further very rare case occurs when at a high altitude in the ‘ice needle clouds’..a light accretion of hoar frost..forms on the aeroplane.
1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms x. 323 Another process which leads to the upheaval of material in the active layer [of the soil] is the development of small localised ice-masses and ice-needles (‘pipkraker’).
1981 J. H. Snow in W. C. Sturtevant Handbk. North Amer. Indians: Subarctic 612/2 (table) Fishing devices..ice chisel, ice scoop, ice needle.
1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) vi. 218 If we could, we would make it out of those swirling ice-needles and winds into a forest of snow-draped mountain peaks.
ice pad n. (a) an ice-cold pad applied to a part of the body, typically to reduce fever, swelling, or pain; cf. ice pack n. 2; (b) originally and chiefly North American an enclosed area of artificial ice used for skating, ice hockey, curling, etc. (cf. rink n.2 4).
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1864 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Apr. 415/2 An ice-pad was ordered to be applied to the upper part of the neck.
1939 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Feb. (Daily Mag. section) Go to bed with a hot water bag on your stomach and an ice pad on your head.
1960 Industr. Refrigeration Apr. 22/1 In addition to supplying the equivalent of six standard size hockey rinks in ice pad area, the Olympic heat pump..will also keep..snow from piling up on the roof.
1966 Arizona Republic 15 May e1 The ice pad was lengthened by 28 feet—making it the largest ice show arena in the nation.
1998 F. A. Kanafani Nadia (1999) xiii. 320 He would spend the nights propped up in bed with ice pads on his forehead.
2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. gt2 Hockey is no longer king and city hall should be planning for other sports fields, not ice pads.
ice-pail n. = ice bucket n.; cf. also Faraday ice-pail experiment n. at Faraday n. 1f.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > water- or wine-cooler
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water cooler1807
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champagne bucket1874
monkey-pot1884
koozie1979
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Carafon A great Bottle to put in an Ice-pail.
1773 Lloyd's Evening Post 6 Sept. 239 Last week the Birmingham Assay Office opened, when the following articles, manufactured..near that town, were assayed and marked:..Sugar Dishes, Castors, Ice pails, [etc.].
1850 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 264 Four bottles..rose from amidst the crystal ruins of a well-filled ice-pail.
1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 77/1 Glass ice pail with metal handle to match;..$1.95.
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Mar. x. 20/1 The streets and beaches are filled with Jamaican women in brightly colored clothes,..bottles of fruit juice in ice pails in their hands.
2000 M. Sargeant Royal Crown Derby 8 (caption) One of a pair of ice pails made for Lord Cremorne. Delicate sprays of the period and armorial bearings.
ice pan n. (a) any of various vessels or containers used for making or holding ice (now historical); (b) chiefly North American (originally Canadian) a slab of floating ice, detached from a larger expanse; an ice floe (cf. pan n.1 10a).
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > piece
iceseOE
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1781 Hibernian Mag. Mar. 120/2 If an ice pan be filled with this material,..and it be suspended over the middle of a table round which several persons may be sitting, their breath will be frozen on the pan.
1792 J. Ll. Williams Let. 25 Mar. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1793) 83 58 I had a thermometer among the ice pans, during the season of making ice.
1842 Bombay Times 2 Feb. 77/3 There is very little ice made now. This..is partly ascribable to the Ice Pans not being filled every night.
1842 J. B. Jukes Excursions in & about Newfoundland I. viii. 291 Notwithstanding all this the excitement of being out in the punt, forcing our way through narrow channels between the ice-pans into lakes of water where old seals were sporting on every side, filling our boat with pelts.
1901 Geogr. Jrnl. July 40 The ice-pans appear to drift capriciously backward and forward.
1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun xii. 120 Suddenly out of the mist, upon an ice-pan, stood the little shrivelled figure of an old Eskimo hunter of seals.
1963 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 20 Sept. Turquoise ice pans (last year's ice) cluttered the water just off shore.
1971 Times of India 13 Jan. (Times Weekly section) 11/2 The fitful and scanty supplies [of ice] from local ice-pans at Hooghly were of course there.
1993 Event Summer 120 Penguins..had been in the middle of the Atlantic, jumping from ice pan to ice pan during a squall.
† ice paper n. [after French papier glacé (1811 or earlier in this sense)] Obsolete gelatin in thin sheets, used for tracing.
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1852 Artizan Mar. 65/1 They included..very thin white and transparent sheets called ‘papier glacé’ or ice paper, for copying drawings.
ice period n. [probably after German Eiszeit (see ice time n.)] = ice age n. 1.
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1842 tr. L. Agassiz in Amer. Eclectic Mar. 309 It is the Glaciers, and the progenitrix of these powerful sons, the Ice-period, to which I would call the attention of my readers.
1893 H. H. Howorth Glacial Nightmare II. 459 The interglacialists are not agreed among themselves as to the number of the ice periods.
1927 New Phytologist 26 3 Warm and equable conditions..prevailed at least through the first half of the Tertiary, or according to some authorities until towards its close, when the great ice period began to supervene.
2009 D. Hyndman & D. Hyndman Nat. Hazards & Disasters (ed. 2) x. 261/1 These cyclic ice periods average 100,000 years apart but vary somewhat in length.
ice-pick n. (a) a small domestic tool with a sharp spike designed for breaking up ice (e.g. for drinks); cf. ice hammer n. (a); (b) a type of sharp pick (pick n.1) designed to cut into the ice, used esp. in Mountaineering; cf. ice hammer n. (b).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > utensils for making ice
icemaker1775
ice-pick1851
ice plane1875
ice axe1960
1851 Boston (Mass.) Daily Atlas 14 Mar. (advt.) Sheriff's sale... 3 covered Ice Wagons—2 Express Wagons..1 iron Ice Cutter—lot of Ice Picks.
1864 Brit. Q. Rev. 1 July 43 We fear we should avoid..the professional mountaineers whom we meet accoutred with ropes and ice-picks.
1937 E. A. M. Wedderburn Alpine Climbing ii. 29 A Hammer for driving in ring-spikes may be combined with an ice-pick; this weapon is..useful for cutting steps..in very steep ice.
1960 News Chron. 11 June 2/8 Jacques Mornard, ice-pick assassin of Leon Trotsky.
2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 373/2 Legs kicking, arms flailing, with ice picks in both hands, O'Donnell geronimos across vast chasm.
ice piece n. (a) a painting which depicts a wintry scene, esp. with a frozen river, lake, etc. (rare); (b) a lump or mass of ice; †(c) an attachment to the bows of a ship to provide protection from ice (obsolete).
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a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) xiii. 202 Rarities in pictures... An Ice Piece describing the notable Battel between the Jaziges and the Romans, fought upon the frozen Danubius.
1778 J. R. Forster Observ. Voy. round World ii. 93 As the ice-pieces are thrown one upon another, ice-mountains are formed by it.
1822 Manch. Guardian 29 June The Brig Wear having been doubled with ice pieces, and put into the best condition for the voyage, we unmoored from Pelican Tier.
1848 R. M. Ballantyne Hudson's Bay (ed. 2) i. 14 The vessel was provided with huge blocks of timber on her bows, called ice-pieces.
1860 M. Faraday in Proc. Royal Soc. 1859–60 10 444 If the paper were away and the ice pieces were brought into contact.., they became one, forming a rigid piece of ice.
1908 A. T. de Mattos tr. G. H. Marius Dutch Painting in 19th Cent. v. 63 As late as 1870, most collectors thought themselves fortunate to possess one of his ice-pieces.
1938 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 38 1235/2 Ice pieces will not be broken in the sink nor on the table so a paper towel is laid on the floor.
2007 M. Hooper Ferocious Summer (2008) xix. 150 Some of the ice pieces have been pushed high among the boulders of the rocky beach.
ice pigeon n. †(a) a bird of the Antarctic, (probably) either an Antarctic petrel or a sheathbill (obsolete rare); (b) a breed of domestic pigeon whose prevailing colour is a pale bluish lavender; cf. sense 5b.Siberian ice pigeon: see the first element.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types
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1829 C. S. Stewart Let. 25 May in Visit to South Seas (1832) I. 104 A beautiful ice-pigeon, probably from New Shetland, which lighted on our capstan hungry and exhausted, proclaimed an approach to the Cape.
1852 G. M. Colvocoresses Four Years in Govt. Exploring Exped. x. 114 Saw several sperm-whales, and a flock of ice-pigeons, of which we were fortunate enough to obtain specimens.
1855 Poultry Chron. 30 May 298/1 The Ice pigeon is another variety of the German Toys, known there by the names of ‘Eis-’, ‘Mehl-’, or ‘Silberfarbige-Taupe’. In size they are rather stouter than a Dove-house pigeon.
1969 C. R. Hill Pet Library's Pigeon Guide viii. 151 (caption) White barred blue Ice Pigeon, young cock. A German exhibition breed.
2005 M. M. Vriends & T. E. Erskine Pigeons 87/2 The Franconian velvet shields,..and ice pigeons are examples of the color pigeons.
ice pilot n. a pilot who has special experience in navigating vessels in icy waterways; cf. ice master n. 1.
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1818 E. Chappell Voy. Newfoundland & Labrador vi. 156 It would be necessary, for insuring the safety of the vessel, that she should be conducted by some able ice pilot.
1911 Hampton-Columbian Mag. Nov. 576/2 Our ice pilot discovered three bears swimming between two floes a mile and a half ahead.
2006 A. Dalton Baychimo vii. 110 Even with an ice pilot to guide her, however, she often had to ram her way through when no leads of open water showed.
ice pipe n. Geology a natural tubular cavity in ice; a hollow tube made of ice extending through (and sometimes projecting from) snow or soil.
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1872 Geol. Mag. 9 306 On the surface of the inland ice..we find everywhere instead, vertical cylindrical holes, of a foot or two deep, and from a couple of lines to a couple of feet in section... We had always a system of ice-pipes of this kind as substratum when we rested for the night.
1904 C. R. Van Hise Treat. Metamorphism (U.S. Geol. Surv.) 444 This squirting upward at the various openings produces innumerable ice pipes.
1929 Geogr. Jrnl. 74 facing p. 465 (caption) Stream running out of ice-pipe.
2005 GeoJournal 62 229/2 These glacier mills and ice pipes have been created along the vertical glacier crevasses.
ice pit n. a pit in which ice is stored for preservation; cf. ice cellar n.
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1775 R. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 255 In their..visits with me to the ice-pits.
1865 G. Malcolm tr. G. Freytag Lost Manuscript I. viii. 157 In the dairy a hole had been dug for the forming of an ice-pit; the labourers had gone away at noon, and the mademoiselle went unsuspectingly close to the uncovered wall.
1999 Richmond (Va.) Times-Disp. (Nexis) 1 June b4 The house sits on a tree-shaded knoll overlooking hundreds of acres of farmland... Its huge, brick-lined ice pit is 18 feet deep.
ice pitcher n. chiefly North American a small pitcher (pitcher n.1 1a), insulated or made of non-conducting material, for holding ice cubes or iced water.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > jug > for ice
ice pitcher1845
1845 Amer. Rev. Sept. 310 Bless that boy, with his ice-pitcher,—Puck, with a vengeance!
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xviii. 221 Take that ice-pitcher down to the texas-tender.
1951 S. J. Perelman Let. 26 Oct. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 116 The water tumblers, ice-pitcher, and tooth-glass are all made of foam.
2008 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) (Nexis) 18 Aug. Volunteers can socialize with residents..or..fill ice pitchers mornings or evenings, [etc.].
ice piton n. Mountaineering a piton (piton n. 2) used to assist climbing on ice.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of
runner1688
runner ring1791
ice axec1800
alpenstock1829
rope1838
climbing-iron1857
piolet1868
snap-link1875
prickera1890
middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892
chock1894
glacier-rope1897
piton1898
run-out1901
belaying-pin1903
snap-ring1903
ironmongery1904
line1907
Tricouni1914
ice claw1920
peg1920
sling1920
ice piton1926
ice hammer1932
karabiner1932
rock piton1934
thread belay1935
mugger1941
running belay1941
piton hammer1943
sky-hook1951
etrier1955
pied d'éléphant1956
rope sling1957
piton runner1959
bong1960
krab1963
rurp1963
ice screw1965
nut1965
traverse line1965
jumar1966
knife-blade1968
tie-off1968
rock peg1971
whammer1971
Whillans whammer1971
Whillans harness1974
1926 Alpine Jrnl. May 147 The other equipment which is new is pitons for ice, made about 12 inches long with a loose ring.]
1926 Alpine Jrnl. Nov. 342 Ice Pitons: Mr. Flaig..has kindly presented one of the ice pitons referred to. It is made of duralinum, weighs under 4 ozs., and would certainly be useful for descending over a big rimaye.
1954 W. Noyce South Col vi. 110 We then fixed the bridge and tied it down with ice pitons.
2003 S. Mawer Fall (2004) xix. 318 Jamie..went on, almost running up the slope, pausing only to slam in an ice piton.
ice plane n. (a) a large, flat expanse of ice; (b) an instrument used to smooth (the surface of) ice by planing.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other planes
rabat1440
long plane1665
strike-block1678
mitre plane1688
straight block1812
ice plane1823
side fillister1841
upright1842
scraping-plane1846
sun plane1846
beading plane1858
bead-plane1858
fluting-plane1864
panel plane1873
badger plane1874
shooting-plane1875
whisk1875
block planea1884
scraper-plane1895
chariot plane1909
shoulder plane1935
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > utensils for making ice
icemaker1775
ice-pick1851
ice plane1875
ice axe1960
1823 Lit. Chron. & Weekly Rev. 15 Nov. 729/1 The ice planes are formed by the congelation of sea-water.
1846 Frozen Stream ii. 56 An ice-plane is therefore dragged over the ice by a horse, which shaves it to the depth of about three inches or more, until clear ice is reached.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1169/2 Ice-plane,..2. An instrument for shaving off fragments of ice for cooling drinks.
1924 D. Wright Druidism 43 Millions of higher souls are said to have occupied vast ice-planes in the moon, where they lost all perception, save that of simple existence.
1997 G. Hack Handplane Bk. (2003) i. 11/1 Where would Stanley's Universal Plane #55 fit in these categories..? Or how about an ice plane?
ice plate n. a small plate, often made of glass, on which ice cream or a similar dessert is served.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish
spice-plate1391
pie plate1573
maple dish1637
cheese platea1665
supper dish1664
copperplate1665
reaming dish1712
paper plate1723
pickle leaf1762
pap-boat1782
supper1787
vegetable dish1799
well-dish1814
ice plate1820
pudding plate1838
tea plate1862
picnic plate1885
strawberry dish1941
1820 Morning Post 18 July 1/3 (advt.) Dessert service, with French baskets, Ice Pails and Ice Plates extra, contains 65 pieces.
1876 C. Schreiber Jrnls. (1911) I. 443 Small ice-plates have now become the object of our pursuit.
1902 H. James Wings of Dove v. x. 178 The very servant who came to receive Milly's empty ice-plate.
1995 A. C. Funderburg Chocolate, Strawberry & Vanilla i. 8 The Washingtons' white-and-gold French china service..included..12 ice plates, and 36 ice pots.
ice point n. Physics the temperature at which ice is in equilibrium with water at standard atmospheric pressure (i.e. the freezing or melting point under these conditions).Formerly used as a fixed point (0°) on the Celsius scale, the ice point has now been replaced for this purpose by the triple point of water.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs
freezing-point1748
boiling-point1773
absolute zero1798
firing point1807
melting temperature1827
ice point1832
dew-point1833
melting point1838
neutral temperature1854
fusing point or temperature1860
welding point1868
flashing-point1878
flashpoint1878
mp1880
ignition temperature1881
silver-point1882
fire point1884
ignition point1887
neutral point1892
smoking point1915
smoking temperature1915
pour point1922
smoke point1933
1832 F. R. Hassler Compar. Weights & Meas. 9 I have always preferred the comparisons at the same temperature, and selected for it the melting ice point, (32° Fahr.) which is in itself a fixed point of the thermometer.
1903 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 200 108 The coefficient for hydrogen, at a pressure of 100 millims. of mercury at the ice-point, is given..as 0·00366254.
1941 Temperature (Amer. Inst. Physics) i. 10 A limitation of this scale [sc. Kelvin's thermodynamic scale] is that if we make the fundamental interval from the ice point to the steam point 100 degrees, the actual temperature of the ice point is subject to experimental determination.
2001 J. V. Nicholas & D. R. White Traceable Temperatures (ed. 2) iii. 102 The ice point can be used as a ‘poor man's triple point’ to achieve uncertainties of the order of ±2 mK.
ice pole n. chiefly Canadian a pole, typically a long pole, used esp. for breaking or levering ice, and as a marker.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > pole for levering against ice-floes
ice pole1748
1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 96 An Ice-Pole had been set up on the Beach for to know the Height of the Tide.
1851 W. P. Snow Voy. Prince Albert 154 The slackest and thinnest part of the floe, or fragment, was cut into with the axes and chisels until some fortunate blow or prise of the ice-pole rent and loosened it.
1906 J. Lumsden Skipper Parson 107 This useful instrument also serves as an ice pole, enabling the daring sealer..to leap from ‘pan to pan’.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 4/4 Men working on the ice..should hold a boat-hook or small ice-pole in their hands.
2002 Wyoming Tribune Eagle (Nexis) 19 Dec. c1 I fished for years using a regular pole... If you're in an ice shed, you'll probably need an ice pole, but you can get by without one.
ice pop n. [apparently < ice n. + -pop (in lollipop n.); compare later popsicle n., pop n.10] originally and chiefly U.S. a frozen refreshment consisting of a piece of flavoured ice on a stick or in a plastic wrapper; cf. popsicle n.
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1896 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 20 Apr. C. M. Williams, of the College of Emporia, will play his cornet between acts, which is sure to be bad for the ice-pop man in the basement.
1926 Spirit Lake (Iowa) Beacon 7 Jan. Now we can offer you Fenn Bros. Ice Pops at 5c each. Each one is individually wrapped.
1975 Irish Times 9 June 13/1 The Kimmage and Crumlin Tenants' Association..unveiled it yesterday with cheers, shouts, traditional music and a few thousand dripping ice-pops.
2006 J. Iversen High School Confidential ii. 71 She ate a sticklike rainbow ice pop, licking up the drips as it melted slowly under the brilliant sun.
ice poultice n. now historical or archaic = ice pack n. 2.
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1826 London Lit. Gaz. 15 July 445/1 The first operation when a patient is brought in, is to shave his head, and the next to put on it an ice poultice.
1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 June 1195/2 I have never used icebags or ice poultices to the chest in pneumonia, and I can furnish no evidence as to their value.
2008 L. L. Guhrke Wicked Ways Duke viii. 182 She refused the maid's offer to order an ice poultice for her head.
ice pudding n. a frozen dessert of ice cream or similar confection served in the form of a pudding.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings
white pudding1588
quaking puddinga1665
apple pudding1708
cowslip pudding1723
plum pudding1811
roly-poly pudding1821
black cap1822
amber pudding1829
bird's nest pudding1829
slump1831
Bakewell pudding1833
roly-poly1835
dog in a (or the) blanket1842
castle pudding1845
ice pudding1846
pan pie1846
dick1849
roll-up1856
canary pudding1861
roly1861
treacle pud1861
Brown Betty1864
summer pudding1875
parfait1884
schalet1884
Sally Lunn pudding1892
Tommy1895
queen of puddings1903
layer-pudding1909
clafoutis1926
shrikhand1950
chocolate fondant1971
mud-pie1975
tiramisu1982
lava cake1994
1846 C. E. Francatelli Mod. Cook 424 Fill an ice pudding-mould with it [sc. custard], cover it in with the lid, and immerse it in rough ice until dishing-up time.
1922 ‘R. West’ Judge ii. i. 243 Marion..watched her crossly pick up her spoon and eat her ice pudding as if it was a duty.
2002 Spectator (Nexis) 11 May 30 I have sat next to beautiful women at dinner and seen them turn away an ice pudding, in which case I eat it myself as well as my own.
† ice-pulse n. Obsolete rare the throbbing movement which precedes an icequake.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxii. 279 The deep stillness..the mysterious ice-pulse, as if the energies were gathering for another strife.
ice push n. lateral pressure exerted on a shore by a sheet of floating ice as it expands following changes in temperature; (also) = ice rampart n. (b).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [noun] > pressure exerted on shore by ice
ice push1886
the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > rampart formed by pressure of ice on shore
ice push1957
1886 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1885 442/2 Its [sc. Spectacle Reef Light] strength has been thoroughly tested by the ice push already.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 532 This sheet may then exert pressure on the shore, forcing gravel and stones landward and building an ice push or ice rampart.
1969 J. L. Davies Landforms Cold Climates iv. 63 Seasonally frozen lakes in the tundra and elsewhere may form ice-push ramparts around their edges.
2005 E. Kuusisto in M. Seppälä Physical Geogr. Fennoscandia (2008) xvi. 289 (caption) Ice push has deformed a pier on a lake shore in southern Finland.
icequake n. a violent shaking or series of abrupt movements which occur when an ice field, floe, etc., fractures as a result of lateral pressure.
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1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. i. ii. 29 The upper covering of ice..splits with an astonishing noise, and with such a concussion as they aptly denominate an ice-quake.
1822 J. Davis Amer. Mariners 179 The thawing isle explodes—the cliffs resound—The pealing ice-quake rends the solid ground.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 296 When camped low down on a glacier, they felt a firnstoss or icequake.
2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 July 13 Seismic stations reveal a shocking increase in ‘icequakes’ on Greenland, caused by a portion of an ice sheet lurching forward and grinding to a halt.
ice raft n. a sheet of floating ice; = ice pan n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > sheet
shield1624
shota1650
ice raft1818
ice sheet1831
ice shelf1838
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein III. vii. 153 I..was enabled, with infinite fatigue, to move my ice-raft in the direction of your ship.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxviii. 424 Fleets of icebergs and icerafts set sail from every coast that remained above the sea.
1998 Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune (Nexis) 31 Dec. d1 Large eddies fill with swirling ice rafts, gathering momentum to assault the open channels.
ice rafted adj. (esp. of a boulder) having been transported by floating ice; cf. ice-borne adj.
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1884 Science 19 Dec. 560/2 He concludes that they are all non-glacial, some being simple water-worn gravels, others being ice-rafted bowlders, while the scratches reported in two localities are pronounced slickensides and plant-fossils.
1920 A. W. Grabau Textbk. Geol. I. xvii. 530 We have already referred to the ice-rafted material which forms some submarine banks and which has been brought there by floating icebergs.
2009 Nature 16 July 302/3 The recent discovery of ice-rafted debris in middle Eocene ocean sediments prompted suggestions that ice appeared in the Arctic about 46 million years ago.
ice ram n. (a) a ram-like mass of floating ice; spec. an underwater projection from an iceberg or other body of ice (cf. ram n.1 3e); (b) a projection attached to a ship's bows, to assist it in making its way through ice (cf. ice beam n., ice piece n. (c)).
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1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia I. i. xiv. 229 All the ferocious attacks of the impetuous ice-rams in winter have not yet..perceptibly scratched the polished surface of the stately granite archways.
1876 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 12 Dec. 4/1 ‘The Arctic’ sailed..many miles through a field of ice twelve inches in thickness... To those who have not witnessed the performances of these ice rams, the recital appears almost incredible.
1881 Good Company Mar. 19/1 Our greatest danger being from the ‘ice-tongues’ or long, projecting, sub-marine ice-rams with which each loose cake of ice seemed armed.
1915 L. P. Gratacap New Northland iii. 105 Then came an ominous silence and the powerful ice ram rushed down upon us.
1993 Arctic & Alpine Res. 25 93/1 Shallow meltwater ponds and submerged ice rams in regions of dense ice.
2010 A. J. Haywood Siberia vii. 137 Leyborne-Popham's yacht..was a gunboat that had been converted into a pleasure craft. He strengthened its hull and equipped it with an ice ram for the Arctic.
ice rampart n. (a) a defensive rampart made of ice; also figurative; (b) Geology a ridge of beach material which has been forced up along a shoreline by the lateral movement of floating ice.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > ice rampart
ice rampart1846
lake rampart1860
1846 Montreal Gaz. 30 Jan. 2/1 The object of the experiment was partly for practice, and partly to try the capabilities for defence of ice ramparts.
1873 Maritime Monthly Sept. 226 These extensive tracts [sc. the north and south poles] nature has guarded with such formidable ice-ramparts, that the bravest navigators have failed to pierce them.
1921 I. D. Scott Inland Lakes Mich. ii. 59 Ice ramparts of the expansion type..are limited to regions whose winters are severe and are punctuated by frequent cold and warm waves.
1963 E. Shipton Land of Tempest xvii. 185 The great ice ramparts of the Mariano Moreno were clear; these and the vast coombes between reminded me of the south side of Mont Blanc.
2005 E. Kuusisto in M. Seppälä Physical Geogr. Fennoscandia (2008) xvi. 289/1 An ice rampart that had developed on the promontory of Kiviniemi beside Lake Lietvesi.
ice range n. rare a range of mountains covered in ice.In quot. 1843 apparently a commercial ice store resembling such a range.
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1843 N.Y. Herald 17 May 2/4 We advise all who wish to be kept cool during the warm season, to make immediate application at their office,..or at their Ice Ranges.
1869 S. Beal tr. Trav. Fah-Hian & Sung-Yun Intro. p. xxxv The Ling-Shan, or Ice-Range.
1947 Pop. Mech. June 264/2 Near the Bay of Whales base is one small ice range which, geologists say, seems almost an exact small scale model of Switzerland's Jura Mountains.
2007 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 26 Dec. 4 Scientists will set up China's first permanent glacier observation station on Qilian Mountain, home to one of the longest ice ranges in China.
ice rink n. = rink n.2 4a; (also) a hall or stadium built to house this (cf. rink n.2 4b); cf. curling-rink at curling n.1 Compounds 2, skating-rink at skating n. b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > rink
ice1811
ice rink1848
rink1848
skating-rink1867
glaciarium1878
1848 Sc. Jrnl. 10 June 233/2 At manly amusements of prowess or art, He never was hindmost in acting his part. At ice-rink, or foot-ball, he foremost was still.
1876 S. G. Thomas in R. W. Burnie Mem. & Lett. (1890) viii. 90 Went yesterday to inspect a real ice rink, established in a floating structure on the Thames.
1930 Daily Express 16 Aug. 3/1 By the middle of October there will be at least nine ice-rinks in London alone.
1953 X. Fielding Stronghold 277 The surface of this winding watercourse was like that of a shattered ice-rink.
2000 J. Williams Cardiff Dead (2001) iii. 36 He walked past the ice rink into town, pausing briefly to mourn the passing of the Salutation, his regular drinker in the old days.
ice river n. a body of ice flowing slowly down a gradient, a glacier; cf. ice stream n. 2.
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1843 J. D. Forbes Trav. Alps of Savoy xvii. 312 It [sc. Monte Rosa Glacier] is a very vast ice river.
1920 Nat. Hist. 20 172/1 In rate of flow these rock rivers are probably slower than the ice rivers, or glaciers.
2000 M. de Villiers Water (new ed.) i. ii. 28 The Greenland glaciers, like most of the world's ice rivers, have been..gaining as much through new accumulation as they lose through breakaways.
ice room n. (a) = ice chamber n. †(b) (usually in plural) a room in which ices (sense 4b) or iced beverages are served (obsolete).
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1758 C. Over Ornamental Archit. 7 (caption) A, BB, C are the Entrance, Door and Ice-Room.
1810 Morning Post 2 Aug. 3/3 The Libraries, the Steyne, and Cooke's ice-rooms, as well as Wright's Saloon, were..crowded with company.
1829 Manch. Guardian 23 May 1/2 (advt.) Her ice rooms are now open for the season, with an abundant supply of Cream and Water Ice.
1894 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 11 Apr. 10/4 On the west side of the ballroom floor was situated the ice rooms. These..seemed quite adequate to accommodate the rushing throng who desired only a sip of some cooling beverage.
1902 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: R–Z 1728/1 In addition to this the second story of the house should be provided with one or two ice rooms.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. i. 10 Everything was still cold from the ice room, and the milk bottles sparkled with frost under the loading dock's lights.
ice run n. (a) a sloping channel or (later) a mechanized conveyor for the transportation of blocks of ice (now rare); (b) a stretch of ice prepared for tobogganing; also figurative (cf. run n.2 12e).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > slope or run
coast1775
bob1856
toboggan1878
toboggan slide1878
run1879
chute1884
ice run1900
piste1917
1870 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 29 July A sailor..fell between the ice-runs, two cakes of ice weighing six hundred pounds each going over him.
1900 Daily News 30 Nov. 5/2 The new ice-run for tobogganers..is almost ready for use.
1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly vi. 163 Mr. Polly swerved a little from the conversational ice-run upon which he had embarked.
1918 Electr. Rev. (U.S.) 21 Dec. 988/2 The proceeds of the bonds will be used to provide for..the construction of a new ice run.
1956 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 2 Sept. 8/2 The ice run on which the 300 pound blocks of ice are moved by conveyor chain.
2011 Leek Post & Times (Nexis) 9 Mar. 8 A Leek youngster is celebrating after making his debut riding a mini-toboggan on an ice run in Switzerland.
ice safe n. a refrigerated storage chest, esp. one for food; a refrigerator; (in older use) a ventilated food cupboard having chambers for containing ice.
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1845 Morning Chron. 9 Sept. 5/2 (advt.) The nobility, gentry, and public are respectfully invited to an inspection of Ling's improved and economical Patent Ice Safe, which is in constant operation at the Patentee's, No. 1, Spur-street, Leicester-square.
1920 Jrnl. Hygiene Oct. 226 The residue from the alcoholic extract was treated with acetone for 24 hours, and then stored in the ice safe and filtered.
1986 Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. Above all, her desires fasten on acquiring a ‘Wenham Lake’ ice-safe; which, alas, is all she does get in the end.
ice saint n. (also with capital initials) a saint whose day is traditionally celebrated during a spell of cold weather (chiefly in plural); spec. (in continental Europe) any one of the saints whose days fall within a short period in May traditionally believed to be liable to frost (see quot. 1922); (also) this period of cold weather. [In specific use probably after German Eisheilige in similar use.]
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold spell > in spring
after-winter1593
blackthorn wintera1793
ice saint1873
Buchan1923
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > particular saints > [noun] > Mamertius, Pancreas and Gervase
ice saint1873
1873 J. Glaisher & C. B. Pitman Flammarion's Atmosphere iii. iii. 211 The fall after the 7th of February is very sudden, and continues to the 12th, which gives but a single minimum even in the middle of the ice-saints of February.
1895 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 643/2 Ice Saints, those saints whose days fall in..‘the black-thorn winter’.
1922 Meteorol. Mag. 57 177 The quasi-periodic occurrence of a cold spell lasting for a few days early in May is a well-known popular belief... On the Continent three ‘Saint Days’, those of St. Mamertius, St. Pancras and St. Gervais, falling on May 11th, 12th and 13th..are popularly known as the Eisheiligen, or ‘Ice Saints’.
1930 Spectator 24 May 861/2 It seems that there is also an ice saint, Mamertius, whose day is May 11th.
1969 Guardian 7 June 7/5 There was the normal cold iceburst in mid-May, but it came a week later than the proverbial ‘Ice Saints’ days on the Continent.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 May 35 The ice saints appear to be sleeping on the job this year.
ice sandal n. a sandal or light shoe with a spiked or anti-slip sole designed to be worn on ice.
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1865 Sci. Amer. 9 Sept. 166/1 This ice sandal is intended to make walking on ice as easy and safe as walking on gravel.
1920 T. Van Dyke Songs of Seeking & Finding 8 At his approach Old Winter turns By secret ways that show Where his ice-sandals leave their marks In flight to lands of snow.
1999 Industr. Distrib. (Nexis) 30 Mar. 8 Line of footwear products includes..strap-on ice sandals for walking on sheet ice or frozen snow,..and two models of high-cut over-the-sock boots.
ice saw n. a large saw specially constructed (often with a long blade and long thin handle) for cutting through ice.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > for cutting ice
ice saw1788
1788 Morning Chron. 8 Oct. (advt.) A large Ice Saw, Pit and cross cut Saws.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Ice-saw, a large saw used for cutting through the ice, for relieving ships when frozen up.
1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea iv. 49 Ice-saw crews were organized in readiness for cutting a dock.
1995 Independent 10 Oct. ii. 20/5 An ice saw has teeth two inches long.
icescape n. (a pictorial representation of) an ice-covered landscape.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > scenery
icescape1839
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > type of
paysage1611
winter piece1612
rockscape1754
pastoral1798
skyscape1811
snow scene1836
icescape1839
cloudscape1868
townscape1880
winterscape1884
treescape1885
farmscape1886
cowscape1896
roadscape1899
cityscape1915
dunescape1928
slumscape1947
hellscape1959
jungle-scape1973
1839 Lit. Gaz. 9 Feb. 88/1 The wild northern land and ice-scapes, with turbulent seas and bird-spangled skies and shores, in which he has placed his various seals, walruses, &c, are beautiful. The sea-serpent is a perfect picture.
1904 J. D. Hooker Let. 3 Dec. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1918) II. 457 His landscapes, sea-scapes and ice-scapes are most interesting.
1936 J. Grierson High Failure ix. 208 I had never before experienced the hypnotic splendour of the ice-scape. It seemed as though I were flying in a dream.
1969 Sunday Times 9 Feb. 6 The whole icescape was awash with light.
2006 G. Mortenson & D. O. Relin Three Cups of Tea (2007) i. 7 Other than snow leopard and ibex,..few living creatures have passed through this barren icescape.
ice scour n. Geology = ice-scouring n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [noun] > specific processes
grooving1877
outwash1884
ice-scouring1888
plucking1893
ice scour1899
sapping1899
nivation1900
transfluence1949
1899 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 10 133 The preservation of this frail ridge of crushed rock..shows that there was little ice scour after the dislocation occurred.
1936 V. C. Finch & G. T. Trewartha Elem. Geogr. xvii. 364 The surface configuration of plains where ice scour was predominant is characterized by rounded rock hills and broad open valleys with comparatively low local relief.
2001 C. Park Environment (ed. 2) xv. 462/2 (caption) Characteristic features of ice scour in glaciated mountains and valleys include cirques, hanging valleys, cols, horns and arêtes.
ice-scoured adj. Geology subjected to or shaped by ice-scouring.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [adjective] > specific processes
plucked1893
ice-scoured1897
quarried1909
transfluent1951
sapped1972
1897 Amer. Geologist 19 193 The rounded outline so characteristic of an ice-scoured country is good positive evidence of ice action.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xvi. 385 Where the surface over which the ice caps moved was mountainous..the result was not an ice-scoured plain, but a general smoothing off..of the topography.
2005 D. Bredes Fifth Season vi. 54 Many a town has grown up under the gaze of a solitary mountain...Ours was Mount Joseph, an ice-scoured monadnock four miles northeast of Tipton village.
ice-scouring n. Geology the action of an ice sheet or glacier in eroding the land and producing and shaping landforms; an instance or episode of this.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [noun] > specific processes
grooving1877
outwash1884
ice-scouring1888
plucking1893
ice scour1899
sapping1899
nivation1900
transfluence1949
1888 R. F. Heddle in J. A. Harvie-Brown & T. E. Buckley Vertebr. Fauna Outer Hebrides 237 The greatest amount, at least of recent change of surface, has been by degradation through ice-scouring.
1919 N.Y. State Mus. Ann. Rep. 1916 I. 159 These ice scourings, however, grooved the old wave-cut Trenton shelf and spoiled its flatness.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 57 The Saint Gotthard lakes..are noted..as having been formed by ice-scouring.
2000 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 10 May t4 Rare Arctic plants..grow at the base of inaccessible limestone ledges along the river where nothing else grows because of annual ice-scouring.
ice screw n. (a) any one of a number of screws attached to the sole of a shoe to prevent the wearer from slipping on ice; (b) an ice-elevator of which the platform is raised and lowered by means of a central screw; (c) an ice-piton (piton n. 2) which is screwed, rather than hammered, into the ice.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of
runner1688
runner ring1791
ice axec1800
alpenstock1829
rope1838
climbing-iron1857
piolet1868
snap-link1875
prickera1890
middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892
chock1894
glacier-rope1897
piton1898
run-out1901
belaying-pin1903
snap-ring1903
ironmongery1904
line1907
Tricouni1914
ice claw1920
peg1920
sling1920
ice piton1926
ice hammer1932
karabiner1932
rock piton1934
thread belay1935
mugger1941
running belay1941
piton hammer1943
sky-hook1951
etrier1955
pied d'éléphant1956
rope sling1957
piton runner1959
bong1960
krab1963
rurp1963
ice screw1965
nut1965
traverse line1965
jumar1966
knife-blade1968
tie-off1968
rock peg1971
whammer1971
Whillans whammer1971
Whillans harness1974
1826 E. Clark & M. Sherwill in New Monthly Mag. 16 442 In traversing the plains of ice, we found great advantage from the use of double-headed ice-screws fixed into the heel of the shoe.
1884 Knight's New Amer. Mech. Dict. 489/1 Ice-screw, a machine for elevating ice from the pond to the ice-house, or from one level to another.
1965 D. Bathgate in Sc. Mountaineering Club Jrnl. 28 109 At the shortest point I surmounted the steep part, fixed an ice screw, and then traversed back across the centre of the ice to about twenty feet above the belay.
2002 Independent 4 Mar. i. 2/8 One of Mr Hunston's ice screws came out and as a result he fell back down to the last ice screw he had put into the face of the mountain.
ice sculpture n. (a) the action or process by which a glacier shapes a landscape; (b) a naturally occurring ice formation, esp. one which is pleasing or impressive in appearance (now rare); (c) the art of carving (esp. representational) forms in blocks of ice; a sculpture carved from ice.
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1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps Contents p. xv Ice Sculpture.
1871 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 376/2 The denuded portions of the mountains are open to careful study as to resultant forms and amount of ice sculpture.
1890 Isle of Man Times 11 Oct. 4/7 Dr. Haviland exhibited some..sketches, photographs, rubbings, and sections which he had taken of some remarkable ice sculptures at Craig Abermaw, in North Wales.
1907 Washington Post 7 Feb. 15/6 The ice sculptures are especially pretty, and the ice paintings have been highly praised.
1908 Mountaineer Nov. 92 Here we saw magnificent ice sculptures. High turrets and spires arose from the masses of clear ice.
1947 Life 12 May 95/1 Of all the arts few are more frustrating than ice sculpture.
1981 L. W. Price Mountains & Man (1986) v. 144/2 The features and forms created by ice sculpture are very different from those caused by running water.
2009 R. Moreno Nevada Curiosities i. 12 Some twenty chefs and sous-chefs were on hand to present the dishes, which were accented by giant ice sculptures.
ice-shed n. [ < ice n. + shed n.1] Physical Geography a divide between two expanses of moving ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > divide between expanses of moving ice
ice-shed1862
1862 A. Milman in Peaks, Passes, & Glaciers 2nd Ser. I. ii. 136 Before 9 o'clock [we] attained the summit of the glacier, and the deep gap in the mountain chain that forms its ice-shed.
1894 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 3) 830 The ice-shed in Scandinavia did not coincide with the water-parting.
1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era I. iv. 77 The iceshed, more than 1000 miles (1600 km) long, seems to lie behind South Victoria Land and Dronning Maud Mountains.
2006 D. McCarroll in P. G. Knight Glacier Sci. & Environmental Change lii. 268/2 As ice flow to the south was restricted, southerly flowing glaciers would thicken, allowing them to overflow their own ice-sheds.
iceship n. a ship designed to sail in icy waters, esp. one constructed to resist ice pressure (in quot. 1825 apparently: a ghostly ship encrusted with ice).
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1825 Maryland Gaz. & State Reg. 31 Mar. 2/2 On beautiful moonlight evenings, we could dimly distinguish the Ice Ship, steering in our wake, glittering in all the pride of awful pomp.
1829 Olio 2 406/1 Snow will be scarce as charity, Frost rare as poet's brains; On Norway's coast ice-ships must be, Or Britons freeze mild rains.
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. 247 Plants..transported [to Calcutta]..by one of the ice ships from North America.
1906 Aëronautical Jrnl. July 43/2 The apparatus of the expedition was assembled at Tromsoe, in Norway, where the iceship Frithjof was in readiness.
1959 New Scientist 2 Apr. 765/2 Where is the body both rich and powerful enough to build us the ice-ships that we and the Commonwealth so badly need?
2002 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 3 Feb. (Queensland ed.) 23/3 (caption) Piers Akerman. Aboard the iceship Sir Hubert Wilkins.
iceshoe n. a shoe with a spiked or otherwise anti-slip sole for use on icy surfaces; frequently in plural.
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1814 tr. G. H. von Langsdorff Voy. & Trav. II. xiv. 292 Kamschadales,..who will sometimes climb very steep hills in pursuit of the argali, or wild-sheep, make use of a different sort of shoe, which they call ice-shoes.
1897 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Sept. 585/1 The climbers wore ice-shoes with leather suckers on the soles.
1995 Newsbytes (Nexis) 21 Dec. There's no need to strap on the ice shoes or mush up the huskies.
iceshop n. (a) a shop where ice is sold; (b) a shop where iced refreshments (water ice, ice cream, etc.) are sold.
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1799 Courier & Evening Gaz. 12 Jan. (advt) A small Theatre, some Cabinets Litteraires, ice shops, &c., &c.
1875 J. Croll Climate & Time xxx. 510 Blocks of ice..in the windows of ice-shops.
1953 R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together i. i. 10 Ditty Johnson..waited for the ice-shop to put out its flag.
2004 AAP Newsfeed (Nexis) 27 May The first robbery occurred at an ice shop in Keilor Road, Niddrie, about 4.30pm..yesterday.
ice spirit n. (fancifully) a spirit of nature associated with ice (esp. in allusion to frost).
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > other types of
ice spirit1829
ice queen1831
corn-spirit1890
corn-king1931
1829 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 20 Jan. (heading) The ice spirit.
1831 New Monthly Mag. 33 215/2 Harold, with a hand which has been frozen by the touch of the ice-spirit, seizes his enemy in his cold grasp, and freezes up the current of life.
1900 Month Jan. 85 I took you for that evil thing, the ice-spirit, who freezes the limbs of our people.
2003 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 10 Oct. p72 He encounters a shape-shifting ice spirit that endows him with the awareness he needs to return to his community in triumph.
ice spoon n. (a) a utensil designed to smooth icing; (b) a type of spoon, esp. one with a wide, slotted bowl, designed to hold and convey ice.
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1805 W. A. Henderson Housekeeper's Instructor (ed. 12) xx. 229 As the cream sticks to the sides scrape it down with your ice spoon.
1818 S. Weston La Scava 13 Spoons... Others have cone-shaped ears, like our ice-spoons.
1921 Jewelers' Circular 8 June 73/2 The committee recommended the following alphabetical arrangement for what are commonly known as ‘ounce goods’..Ice spoon. Ice tongs [etc.]
1997 G. Kugach Freshwater Fishing Tips vii. 145 If you hook a lunker, and you don't have a gaff, use the curved handle of your ice spoon.
ice sport n. a sport which takes place on ice.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > [noun]
winter sport1699
winter game1731
ice sport1841
snow-sports1966
1841 New Sporting Mag. Feb. 104 Another lively winter sport in the prairie country, is a wolf-hunt on the ice... Your horse must be rough-shod for this, as, indeed, for all ice sports.
1908 Daily Chron. 27 July 4/4 Boating in summer and ice sports in winter.
2011 Toronto Star (Nexis) 24 Apr. a8 Hockey was to be the ice sport for Lewis and Karen Chan's only child.
ice spur n. a spur, spike, or other attachment fixed to the sole of a boot, to assist in walking on ice; frequently in plural.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > spikes or prongs to prevent slipping
ice spur?a1549
frosts1718
calk1805
spur1820
spike1832
sprig1835
mud-shoe1846
clamper1856
shoe-nail1860
ice calk1863
?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 122/1 The yron howse..Ise Spoores.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Ice-spurre, a shooe driuen full of iron nailes pointed.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. i. 240 He standeth but in a slippery place; and therefore needs constantly to wear ice-spurres, for he rather glides then goes.
1722 H. Elking View Greenland Trade 27 Irons fasten'd near to the Heels of their Shoes, called Ice-Spurs.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 4/2 The party had to unbuckle their shoes and climb, with the help of ice-spurs and axes.
1912 Rudder Jan. 34/1 With that trusty long left leg equipped with his wonderful ice-spurs the Georgie never stops even in a calm.
2008 G. Brown 90 Years crossing Lake Michigan viii. 120 Three coastguardsmen carrying a long line, wearing ice spurs, and with the aid of ice picks, started out along the ice-covered south pier.
ice stalactite n. Physics (a) an icicle; (b) a hollow tube of undersea ice which may form round a plume of cold brine produced by the growing sheet of ice above it.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxiii. 182 Every thing about the vessel froze into heavy ice stalactites.
1916 D. Mawson in Rep. Sci. Investig. Brit. Antarctic Exped., 1907–9: Geol. II. i. 17 (heading) Ice-stalactites.
1970 Science 9 Jan. 172/1 Ice stalactites consist of freshwater ice frozen from seawater with the concurrent expulsion of brine.
1985 A. Pitty Geomorphology i. 5 Some water expelled from the glacier refreezes at the cavity ceiling when the pressure is released, forming ice stalactites and excrescences.
2012 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) Mar. 5 An unprecedented time-lapse shot underwater records the growth of a brinicle—an ice stalactite progressing downward toward the seabed, killing everything its frozen plume touches.
ice station n. (a) a station or base established in an icy region, esp. to collect data; (b) a station or post at which ice is collected for storage (now historical).
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1825 E. Sabine Acct. Exper. Figure of Earth 494 One of the ice stations should be excepted from this remark, the experiments having been made on an iceberg of immense size very securely grounded in Davis Strait.
1850 J. W. Calvert Merits & Tendencies of Free-trade & Protection (Knowsley Pamphlet Coll.) 50 A penalty was also imposed whenever an ice station was found to be without ice.
1922 Ice & Refrigeration Dec. 377/2 From this summary a record is kept of the sales made on the platform of each plant and ice station.
1997 J. Hatfield & G. Burt Unauthorized X-Cycl. A: Amaru 11 The ice station was torched by the military forty-five minutes after Mulder and Scully and the survivors of an investigative team were airlifted out.
ice step n. a step cut into ice; frequently in plural.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > a step > cut into ice
ice step1857
1857 Q. Rev. Apr. 311 It is extremely difficult to hew out ice-steps in descending.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 14/1 We stood in the ice-steps.
1931 Discovery Feb. 41/1 To cut ice-steps all along so great a ridge will be an affair not of hours but of a day or two.
2005 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 8 Feb. 4 Despite the extra work in maintaining the ice steps, it was an exciting time to be on the glacier.
ice stick n. (a) a stick with a spike at the end which provides assistance when walking on ice; (b) a spiked stick used in icy regions for fishing.
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1806 Univ. Mag. Oct. 317/2 Armed with an ice-stick,..we walked off from the noisy amusements of the bathing company, towards the silent grandeur of nature.
1845 Liverpool Mercury 10 Jan. 10/3 Most fortunately I recovered an ice-stick, six or seven feet long, with a strong iron spike at one end, such as they generally carry in Holland.
1998 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (Nexis) 11 Jan. c18 Consequently, we mope around the garage, longingly holding our unused..ice sticks..and wondering if it's possible El Nino will postpone an entire ice fishing season.
ice storm n. a storm of freezing rain, esp. one that leaves a deposit of ice on trees, etc.; also figurative.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > storm of freezing rain or ice
ice storm1797
1797 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIX. 133 At the break of an ice storm [the water]..sends forth a tremendous roar.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Punch, Brothers, Punch! (1878) 17 We have to credit the weather with..the ice-storm.
1921 R. Frost Mountain Interval 29 But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that.
1965 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 13 Dec. 19/1 Nearly every cloud has a silver lining and Sunday's ice-storm was no exception.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 109 When Aretha Franklin tossed on her mink on the bitter cold day of Clinton's inauguration, she was pelted with an ice-storm of negativity.
ice-strengthened adj. (of a ship, boat, etc.) designed or adapted to withstand contact with ice.
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1927 C. H. Mackie Econ. Conditions Finland vi. 22 Many of the steamers that were not specially ice-strengthened sustained damage.
1983 R. Fiennes To Ends of Earth v. 164 The summer months, when ice-breakers and ice-strengthened vessels like ours can hope to shove and maneuver their way through it.
2006 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 18/2 A vessel like the Golden Princess is not ice-strengthened and will be operating in a part of the world where there is poor hydrographical information.
ice striae n. Geology thin lines of scoring made in rocks by ice passing over them; cf. stria n. 2a.
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1865 J. F. Campbell Frost & Fire II. iii. 59 Near the top of the cliff ice-striæ are well marked upon whinstone, near a wall.
1913 W. H. Twelvetrees in W. McInnes et al. Coal Resources of World I. 49 Some of the coal is scored with ice striæ.
2008 R. Binns & P. Grogan tr. J. P. Nystuen in I. B. Ramberg et al. Making of Land ii. 42 Glaciers..leave behind small erosion forms like smoothly polished rocks with ice striae, friction cracks, chatter marks and other abrasive marks.
ice system n. a connected system or group of glaciers, ice sheets, etc.
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1860 N. Shaw in I. I. Hayes Arctic Boat-journey Introd. p. xxvii The Humboldt glacier of Kane is not to be considered as the outlet of the great fluvial ice-system of Greenland, but as one simply analogous to the other glaciers of that country.
1901 Amer. Geologist 28 279 The New Zealand glaciers are all of the Alpine type—they don't pass the larger watersheds—and they are simply extensions of the present ice system.
2001 E. Dewar Bones (2004) xxi. 491 Grosswald had proposed that not only was there an ice sheet in Siberia, but that it had formed part of a huge ice system that ran all the way to the Kara Sea.
ice tea n. = iced tea n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > chilled or iced tea
iced tea1839
ice tea1842
1842 tr. J. G. Kohl Russia & Russians I. iii. 42 The Russians..drink not only ice-water, ice-wine, ice-beer, but even ice-tea, throwing into a cup of tea a lump of ice instead of sugar.
1922 G. A. Smith There goes Groom xiv. 132 May I offer you something cooling? A gin fizz? An ice tea? A syrup?
1971 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 16 Apr. 18/4 I hope some of the local restaurants will keep large pitchers of ice tea..and will dispense it freely.
2012 D. Howell Tote Bags & Toe Tags xviii. 194 The waiter brought the ice teas we'd ordered. I stirred in two sugars.
ice tongue n. a body of ice that projects outwards or downwards from a glacier, ice sheet, coastline, etc., esp. one that is relatively long and narrow; cf. ice lobe n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > projection of
ice belt1840
ice tongue1856
ice foot1917
ram1952
1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. May 454/1 We had succeeded in butting through the one or two obstructing ice-tongues, and were steaming it fairly out of the Great Pack.
1919 E. Shackleton South viii. 129 At the head of an ice-tongue that nearly closed the gap through which we might enter the open space was a wave-worn berg.
2004 A. Selters Ways to Sky x. 203/1 Carman joined Yvon Chouinard to climb the easternmost ice tongue on the 1000-foot-high north face of Mt. Fay.
ice tray n. †(a) a tray or dish for serving ice or ices (sense 4b) (obsolete); (b) a tray filled with water and placed in a freezer or freezing compartment to make ice; esp. one with small partitions or moulds for producing ice cubes.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for > part of
ice tray1870
1781 Catal. Houshold Goods H. Brownrigg (J. Braxton, Auctioneer) 87 A large pair of ice trays.
1852 F. Trollope Uncle Walter I. xiv. 223 A pause ensued in the dancing, occasioned by the entrance of half a dozen ice-trays.
1870 Engineering 19 Aug. 133/3 The air..makes its exit at the end of the refrigerator opposite to that at which it entered, passing into the cistern of water from which the ice trays are supplied.
1889 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 27 Mar. In the service is a..cracker bowl, almond jar, olive boat, ice tray, lemon dish and sugar basin, all of the finest cut crystal.
1905 Daily Californian 18 Apr. 3/1 (advt.) These are ‘Victor’ refrigerators; positively sanitary; removable shelves and ice tray.
1962 Which? June 176/2 We filled the ice trays with cold water..and set the thermostats to coldest.
2005 Sunday Life (Belfast) (Nexis) 8 May I..emptied the ice tray into a jug, poured in..a couple of cups of orange squash, and then threw in the sliced fruit.
ice wagon n. chiefly North American (a) a wagon in which ice is conveyed for sale or delivery, esp. during the summer (now chiefly historical); (b) (in extended use) a refrigerated vehicle in which ice is transported.
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1838 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 16 June (advt.) On and after Monday, the 18th, notes of a less denomination than one dollar,..will not be received in payment for Ice from my Ice wagons.
1898 J. London Let. 30 Nov. (1966) 6 Saturday I worked on an ice wagon.
1905 Sketch 51 38/1 The earliest on his rounds was the man with the ice-waggon, who put down on the door-step of each house a block of ice.
1963 M. Gallant Ice Wagon going down Street in New Yorker 14 Dec. 70 When I was a kid, I would get up in the summer before the others, and I'd see the ice wagon going down the street.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 88 Ice wagon, a refrigerated trailer.
2007 D. Curtis Way we Were vi. 11 Ice wagons were a favorite gathering place for the kids playing in our neighborhoods through the summer.
ice wedge n. Physical Geography a vertical wedge-shaped mass of ice in the soil of a permafrost region; (also) a crack or fissure in the earth resulting from the formation of such ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > mass of ice in permafrost region
ice wedge1865
hydrolaccolith1955
1865 J. F. Campbell Frost & Fire I. xi. 134 In dragging particles into their place the packing force squeezes the ice-wedge under the gravel, and the ground is ‘blown up by the frost’.
1915 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 23 642 The constant association of ice wedges with definite loci of frost cracks.
1975 Times 27 May 14/8 Ice-wedges indicate a climate too inclement for human occupation.
2008 C. Turney Ice, Mud & Blood iv. 115 When the permafrost melted, the ice wedges filled in with sediment and the pingos collapsed, forming big holes in the ground.
ice whale n. a whale that frequents the pack ice of the polar regions; spec. the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, of the Arctic.
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1822 in G. W. Manby Jrnl. Voy. Greenland 110/2 Some ice whales seen.
1915 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 47 907 The whales remaining all summer in the pack between Point Barrow and Herschel Island are mostly old bulls, and a species of small Arctic ice whale.
2007 Independent (Nexis) 14 June The Eskimo have been called ‘the people of the ice whale’ because without the bowhead we would not exist.
ice-white adj. having a whiteness like that of ice; that is as white as ice.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as other typical things
swan-white1393
paper-whitec1430
ice-white1641
pearl white1779
lint-white1794
wool-white1819
fish belly1878
wax-white1883
1641 T. Beedome Poems sig. E3v Perhaps your teares may move The frozen Mercy of my ice-white love.
1891 G. Atherton Question of Time vi. 68 A woman lay prone. Her ice-white face was still as death.
1931 Daily Tel. 21 May 6/3 A gown of very heavy ice white satin.
2003 Home Dec. 75/1 For a winter wonderland, opt for silver and ice-white candles.
ice wool n. a fine, glossy worsted yarn, used esp. for making shawls and scarves; cf. eis wool n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > for sewing or knitting > specific
Norfolk thread1407
garn1483
crewel1494
caddis1530
worsted yarn1533
worsted1546
fingering1681
German wool1807
wheel-spuna1825
Berlin wool1841
ice wool1876
Berlin1881
eis wool1882
quick-knit1935
bawneen1958
1876 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 13 Sept. 8/4 New trimmings, canvas embroideries and a lot of ice wool has just been received.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Jan. 18/1 Ice Wool Scarves in a good assortment of colors, stripes or plain shades, with contrasting stripe borders.
1998 B. J. Wylie Enough i. i. 22 Every morning I layer on a delicious assortment of clothes:..big wool skirts, Ice-wool sweaters, socks, moccasins, heavy shawls.
ice yacht n. a yacht specially constructed with runners for sailing on the ice; cf. ice boat n. 2.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > with sails
ice boat1748
ice yacht1838
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other non-self-propelled vehicles > [noun] > land vehicle driven by sails > for use on ice
ice boat1748
ice yacht1838
1838 J. G. Flügel Triglotte ii. 168/1 Ice-yacht, a small vessel used like a sledge to sail on the ice.
1869 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 18 Jan. Quite a fleet of ice-yachts can be seen on the Kinnickinnick basin every fine and breezy day.
1882 Standard 1 Dec. 5/4 The ice yacht is really a skeleton boat mounted on gigantic runners.
1930 Pop. Sci. Feb. 142/3 At present most ice yachts carry about three-hundred and fifty square feet of sail.
1997 Bizarre Mar. 56/1 Second-hand..ice yachts start at under £500.
ice yachting n. the activity or sport of sailing in an ice yacht.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > other types of race
boat race1777
ice-boating1851
ice yachting1866
1866 Liverpool Mercury 28 Mar. 7/5 The American journals just now are full of particulars of ice-yachting, which has come greatly into fashion during the present winter.
1912 Forest & Stream 3 Feb. 149/2 Weather conditions have not been propitious for ice yachting during the past week.
1997 Bizarre Mar. 56/1 The whole point of ice yachting is to go as fast as humanly possible, which means that the machines have to be incredibly light to catch the wind and maximise its pushing power.
ice yachtsman n. a yachtsman who engages in ice yachting.
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1875 A. G. Guillemard Over Land & Sea xxii. 321 The bay looks quiet enough now, but an enthusiastic skater and ice-yachtsman tells me that it presents a vastly different aspect when the winter has fairly set in.
1937 T. R. Glover & D. D. Calvin Corner of Empire vi. 125 Some ice-yachtsmen liked to sail when there was rainwater, perhaps an inch or two of it, lying on the ice.
1996 New Hampsh. Sunday News (Nexis) 29 Dec. b1 These ice yachtsmen, who sail across lakes at breathtaking speeds, understand the limitations on their favorite sport set by fickle weather.
C9. With following adverb, forming noun compounds corresponding to the equivalent verbal phrase (see to ice over, to ice up at ice v. Phrasal verbs 3 and cf. to ice out at ice v. Phrasal verbs 1).
ice-out n. North American the time of year when the ice on the surface of a body of water breaks up and melts; the process of this melt.
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1914 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 15 May 11/3 Ask Kelup or Brayt..or Dave or Wage or Lou or Lee or anyone of the rats who stick around the river from ice out to ice over.
1945 Conservation Wildlife (Hearings before U.S. House Select Comm. Conservation Wildlife Resources, 78th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 326 A few black duck are always to be found in Ducktrap Stream from ‘ice-out’ to ‘freeze-up’.
1988 R. Turnbull Fisher's World: Canada 143 Ice-out usually comes about mid-May and thereafter fishing lasts until mid-October.
2008 J. Heywood Running Dark xxxvii. 228 Soft ice preceded ice-out and made it impossible to run their ice-netting operations.
ice-over n. North American the time of year when an area or a body of water freezes over; the process of this freezing over.
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1914 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 15 May 11/3 Ask Kelup or Brayt..or Dave or Wage or Lou or Lee or anyone of the rats who stick around the river from ice out to ice over.
1968 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 3 Jan. a3/6 That was the day of the great December iceover.
1978 R. Merrill & T. E. Gage Energy Primer (rev. ed.) 148/3 This simple device will inhibit iceover of ponds and lagoons in colder climates.
2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 46/1 During last winter's substantial ice-over season, the weekend lake surface..was peppered with signs of human activity.
ice-up n. North American the action or an instance of icing up; spec. = ice-over n.
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1973 Pop. Sci. June 119/2 No banking of snow against the thresholds, so no ice-ups.
1991 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuges Evironmental Assessment (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) App. D-6 The units were drained just prior to, or just after, ice-up in November.
1992 Great Lakes Fisherman Jan. 23/1 The patented magnetic trip mechanism..employs the use of magnets instead of exposed metal parts... This means no ice-up, even in below zero temperatures.
2004 Canad. Geographic July 24/2 The ice road and the barge will be inactive during the spring and fall migration of the caribou due to the breakup and ice-up on Contwoyto Lake.

Derivatives

ice-like adj.
ΚΠ
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 344 The Lyon.., whose aweful Countenance Melted (farre-off) their yce-like arrogance.
1784 W. Withering in Philos. Trans. 296 Next morning the water was completely covered with an ice-like crust, and had the acrid taste of lime-water in a very high degree.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxix. 60 On the supposed ice-like plain.
1940 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Oct. 82/1 The robot became cherry-red, the sharp edges of the icelike block rounded, and the whole structure began to sag.
2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Aug. c1 The Everlys are the most influential duo in rock history... Their voices, meanwhile, have lost little of their power and icelike clarity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

icev.

Brit. /ʌɪs/, U.S. /aɪs/
Forms: see ice n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ice n.
Etymology: < ice n.In sense 2 perhaps after Middle French, French glacer to cover (something) with a shiny, transparent coating (1549, although only recorded from 1680 in specific culinary use).
1.
a. transitive. To cover or cause to be covered with ice, as a result of freezing temperatures. Frequently in passive.Frequently (and usually in earlier use) with over: see to ice over 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > convert to ice [verb (transitive)] > cover with ice
icea1500
a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) l. 2883 (MED) To þe grete flode of gratun to-geder þai ryddyn, And fyndyn it frosyn þaim byfore, a fute-thyke ysyd [Ashm. yse].
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clxxxiii. 94 Calm or convuls'd—in breeze, or gale, or storm—Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxv. 281 The moon..was now icing her crimson visage with crystal.
1934 A. Villiers Whalers of Midnight Sun xxv. 184 It iced over the gun and the sparred platform in the bows; it iced the mast, and the big winch.
1992 Buzzworm Nov. 80/2 Ferns iced with frost.
2001 Ecologist Sept. 16/1 Each rainy season, the glaciers are again covered with snow, icing those majestic summits until the sun starts the cycle all over again.
b. transitive. To convert into ice; to freeze, congeal. Also figurative. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > convert to ice [verb (transitive)]
candy1605
ice1633
conglaciate1686
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs v. xi. 31 in Purple Island Perhaps thou think'st, in that sweet look, The white is beauties native tapestrie; 'Tis crystall, (friend) yc'd in the frozen sea.
1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) iii. iii. 119 When no Remnant of his God he found, Soul-freezing Horror ic'd his coward Mind!
1829 Examiner 21/2 A frost that iced the spray of the sea as it fell on the deck.
1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses (1998) 6 Downward they hurled,..and..they hit, were drenched and instantly iced by, the degree-zero boiling of the clouds.
2. transitive. To cover or decorate (a cake, etc.) with a layer of icing (icing n. 1a). Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > ice or coat with sugar
ice?1600
frost1827
sugar-coat1870
spin1883
pipe1894
candy-coat1930
?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. B8v To make Iumbolds..when they are baked, yce them.
1654 M. B. Ladies Cabinet Enlarged & Opened lv. 24 Put them [sc. jumbles] again into the oven and let them stand in a little while, and they wil be iced clean over with a white ice.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at March pane To ice March-Panes.
1779 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 311 It [sc. a seed-cake] will take two or three hours baking; you may ice it if you please.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 402 The best mode of icing fruit-tarts..is, to moisten the paste with cold water, to sift sugar thickly upon it [etc.].
1866 J. Gilliss Let. 19 May in So Far from Home (1993) 66 I had a present from Major Myers of a large jelly cake, iced all over.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea ii. 22 On the table reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning..a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts.
1983 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 216 The softly vaulted ceiling of St Gallen's monastic library Is beautifully iced in Rococo butter cream.
2001 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 23 June 1 a Most Saturdays he's at the bakery by 3 a.m., icing coffee cakes or powder-sugaring doughnuts.
3. transitive. To refrigerate (fish, wine, etc.) with ice; to cool or chill by placing on ice.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [verb (transitive)] > ice
ice1825
frappe1890
1708 Phillips's New World of Words Cistern,..among Confectioners, a portable Instrument in form of a Box, into which Jellies, Creams, etc. are put in order to be Iced.
1825 T. Cosnett Footman's Direct. 130 If you have ice-pails to ice the wine, let this be done.
1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 18 Sept. 15/1 The fish are iced, packed in boxes.
1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 439/1 The feathers are sold separately and the dressed poultry is iced and shipped.
1961 B. Malamud New Life (1962) 137 George, the fine waiter, served..cheese and some dry white capri, iced in buckets.
2010 E. O. Wilson Anthill v. 62 He'd thoughtfully iced some bottles of beer..and stored them under the truck.
4.
a. transitive. figurative. To make cold; to freeze, chill.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)]
coldc1385
chill1399
refreidc1405
infrigidate1540
frigefact1599
frigefy1599
refrigerate1626
ice1804
frostify1833
wintrify1855
colden1860
1804 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 137 That unfortunate..proneness to scepticism, which iced his affections.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 27 Thus they vegetated—living in Polar harmony among themselves; and..occasionally iceing the neighbours.
1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester III. iii. 26 Her very enthusiasms were cold; she iced you..by the tone of her conversation.
2003 T. McEwen Who sleeps with Katz 193 The sense of emergency in the park, the time of bandaging, the smell of tincture merthiolate iced their blood.
b. transitive. U.S. colloquial. To snub, cold-shoulder (a person); to shun. Also to ice out of: to exclude from. Cf. freeze out (freeze v. 7b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > have nothing to do with
to avoid (also shun, etc.) like the plague1699
to steer clear of1723
I wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole1838
to have no truck with1866
to leave or let severely alone1880
I wouldn't touch him (or it) with (the end of) a bargepole1890
ice1932
1932 L. Berg Prison Doctor xvi. 258 He glad hands me: ‘Hello, Wolf! When did you get back?’ I'm leery and ices [sic] him.
1963 Morning Herald (Hagerstown, Maryland) 21 Jan. 9/2 That in itself would be a victory for the Kremlin, after years of being iced out of the continent.
1978 Jet 19 Oct. 11 She tells friends that she has been ‘iced’ although Carter aides say that she has been offered other positions already.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 188 She has iced me haughtily twice at La Scala because I have told her honestly she doesn't have a chance.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Nov. a30/1 They created an extraordinarily efficient system for running the House, in which even moderate Republicans were iced out of the decision-making process.
c. transitive. U.S. slang. To kill, murder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
1941 D. Runyon in Colliers 28 June 48/2 It is not nearly as nice as icing Buttsy for them.
1969 New Yorker 15 Feb. 51 A friend of his had come to his apartment..in clothes that were spattered with blood, and announced, ‘I just iced two girls.’
1973 Guardian 6 Mar. 14/3 A would-be assassin who considers it his mission to ‘ice the fascist pig police’.
2009 T. Pynchon Inherent Vice vii. 96 Maybe Mickey was jealous of Riggs and tried to have him iced.
5. intransitive. To turn to ice; to freeze. Also figurative. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > turn to ice [verb (intransitive)]
freezec1290
ice1845
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 273 Winter is when these we love have perished; For the heart ices then.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 336 When the poles Are icing.
1982 M. Z. Bradley Mists of Avalon i. xiv. 167 Behind her she heard an eerie wailing cry and her skin iced.
6. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S. Sport.) To win (a game, championship, etc.); to secure (victory). Now also more generally: to clinch, seal (a deal, etc.). Also with it as object. Cf. ice n. Phrases 3f.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize)
win1338
vanquisha1400
to bear away?1506
obtain1530
conquer1676
gain1725
ice1908
to take out1977
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > certain prospect or possession > make sure, secure [verb (transitive)]
fand1307
firm1530
to make sure1565
secure1601
warranta1616
assure1622
incertain1628
insure1686
sickera1693
ensure1744
seal1810
guarantee1820
ice1908
1908 Globe & Commerc. Advertiser (N.Y.) 1 May 8/6 The Giants ought to have had the game done up and iced for Crandall so that no home run swat in the ninth inning could have made any difference.
1927 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 7 Jan. 10/5 Hauser, Kansas center, made the goal..which iced the win for the Jayhawks.
1950 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 23 Oct. 11/3 The game was iced in the final minutes of play.
1971 Black Belt Oct. 81/2 It was Scherer who iced it for the Germans, this time with a decisive win..over Cantagalli.
1974 Sunday Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 24 Mar. c7/5 You cannot be content with a handshake to ice the deal.
1991 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 2 Aug. d5/3 The couple was positive they'd accept the job offer. On the next day, the deal was iced.
2007 F. P. Wilson Bloodline ix. 346 She'd found the money. Never mind how, it had iced the case against him.
2010 M. D. Wright National Hockey League, 1917–67 86 Montreal..then iced the series with a 2–0 blanking in the second game.
7. Ice Hockey.
a. transitive. To hit (the puck) from one's own half of the rink into the area behind the opponent's goal line (but not into the goal), thus committing a minor infraction. Cf. icing n. 4.
ΚΠ
1933 Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald 28 Dec. If one outfit continually ‘ices’ the puck up the other end of the rink, no amount of speedy play by the attackers can remedy the situation.
1966 Canadian 29 Jan. 5/3 The defending team, not allowed to ice the puck into the attacking team's end, must stickhandle or pass to waste..time.
1982 N.Y. Times 21 Feb. v. 1/5 The Rockies began icing the puck or dumping it out of their zone at every opportunity.
2001 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 7 Oct. c7/1 The Flyers outshot the Jackets..who were content to ice the puck time after time in the last 10 minutes.
b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Canadian. To select (a team or individual) to play; to send out (a team) on to the ice. Cf. field v. 6b.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > scouting or selecting > scout or select [verb (transitive)] > select
cap1902
field1922
ice1943
1943 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 26 Aug. 10/3 Spokesmen for all last season's entries in the Quebec senior hockey league said..they ‘hoped’ to ice teams again this season.
1963 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 5 Feb. 10/1 McGill iced many potent and colorful teams but none ever won the Canadian title.
1996 Ice Hockey News Rev. 21 Dec. 12/2 For last week's game the Netherlands had taken a decision to ice a relatively inexperienced team.
2006 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 21 Feb. b3 The Swedes iced six players Monday aged 20 years or younger.
8. transitive. Originally U.S. To place ice or an ice pack on (an injured part of the body) so as to reduce swelling or pain.
ΚΠ
1948 N.Y. Times 15 Aug. s1 Lockman got into action after ‘icing’ his ankle until game time to relieve the pain.
1975 Lawrence (Kansas) Jrnl. World 28 Apr. 12/2 Lewis iced his knee overnight and Timmons decided to run him the first leg.
1999 S. Stewart Sharking 73 After choreography, I rested on the stairs icing my knee.
2009 D. S. Jones Glory xi. 129 Once I iced my back and drugged myself, I felt much better.

Phrasal verbs

PV1. to ice out
transitive. To exclude (a person), esp. by coldness or disregard.
ΚΠ
1965 N. Hentoff Jazz Country xiii. 126 Here I'd felt accepted in their house for once, and all of a sudden, I'd been iced out again.
1980 Mother Jones Dec. 18/3 Nobody wanted to live with him... His had been the largest investment and now he was iced out.
2009 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 138/3 Obama had iced out any journalist who has asked him a serious question.
PV2. to ice over
1.
a. transitive (in passive). To be covered with a layer of ice or other cold substance. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with specific other things
clodc1420
pavea1425
foamc1540
overstain1559
thatch1589
sinew1592
to ice over1602
curd1654
overfleece1717
fleece1730
stucco1774
oversmoke1855
bepaper1861
beboulder1862
overflower1876
sack1880
overglass1883
to board over1885
pad1885
lather1917
cobweb1928
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iii. sig. B2v My trembling ioynts (Iced quite ouer with a froz'd cold sweate).
1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 147 When it is iced all ouer, he shall feel neither heat nor cold.
1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. To Rdr. sig. a iij Noise and passion, and hardy confidence, iced over with some sanctimonious pretences.
1740 tr. G. Adlerfeld Mil. Hist. Charles XII II. 180 His kitchen was so far removed from his own tent, that his victuals was ic'd over before it reached the table.
1776 Lady A. Miller Lett. from Italy I. viii. 52 I do not know whether trout have the peculiar quality of living in waters that are iced over for eight months of the year.
1829 H. Smith New Forest II. ii. 39 He felt no breath, no motion; all was cold as if iced over by death.
1849 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Aug. 68/2 There was a fine sheet of water in the park, and if that were but iced over, what splendid skating they could have!
1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 72 When Matthew Arnold wrote that he was thirty years old and his heart was three parts iced over.
2004 Adirondack Life Feb. 47/1 Trees whose branches are iced over are said to be covered with kanik.
b. intransitive. To become covered with ice. Also figurative. Cf. to ice up 3 at Phrasal verbs 3.
ΚΠ
1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 3 Dec. 281/2 Now mud in roads is stiff, and the kennel ices over, and boys make illegal slides in the pathways.
1865 J. Ingelow Stories told to Child 236 In the morning, he had broken a hole in the ice.., but it had iced over so fast, that in the dusk he had missed it and fallen in.
1913 Paper 12 Feb. 27/1 The mills experienced considerable trouble with anchor ice, but the canals soon iced over and the trouble was stopped.
1963 Life 17 May 8/2 A hard winter followed. The harbor iced over.
1993 A. Habens in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 257 As the room grows chill, so does Olive. Nurse Nancy watches her eyes ice over and blinding snow snuff out the fire.
2009 Daily Tel. 4 Feb. 4/1 Roads could be left to ice over as the cold snap runs into next week.
2. transitive. To cause to become frigid or cold and reserved in manner. Cf. to break the ice at ice n. Phrases 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > treat discourteously [verb (transitive)] > treat with lack of affability > make reserved or formal in manner
starch1601
to ice over1741
stiffen1763
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 192 Laying myself open to too early a Suspicion, I thought would but ice the Girl over.
1856 F. Parkman Vassall Morton xxvii. 160 The smooth and bright crusting; with which habit and training had iced over the warm nature of Edith.
2008 S. Meyer Host xxviii The loss of his laughing father and wild big brothers had iced him over the way nothing but Melanie's loss had.
PV3. to ice up
1. transitive (in passive). Of a ship, crew, etc.: to be held fast in ice; to be blocked or obstructed by ice; cf. snow v. 6a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > convert to ice [verb (transitive)] > hold fast with ice
to ice up1832
1832 W. S. Gilly Mem. Felix Neff II. x. 259 Our own gallant officers and seamen, who embarked in the polar expeditions, with the certainty before them of being snowed or iced up during many months of privation.
1860 C. Tomlinson Winter in Arctic Regions (new ed.) iii. 237 Captain Austin's ships were iced up about the end of September, and so remained until July or August.
1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle xii The boats are frozen on to the chocks... Did you never see a boat iced up before?
1935 Ave Maria 7 Sept. (2005) 302/2 Thus they cut a circle right round any ship that has got iced-up in the Gulf of Finland.
2000 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 3 Dec. Unsinkable, by Richard Bean, told the story of the sinking of a series of Hull trawlers which got iced up and capsized off Iceland.
2. transitive. To fill up or cover with ice; to freeze, chill. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > convert to ice [verb (transitive)] > fill up with ice
to ice up1840
1840 Ladies' Garland 3 82/2 My joys are withered—a very winter is icing up the fountains of my heart—I am sick with disappointment.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvii. 201 Icing up again the opening in the walls.
1910 H. C. Rowland In Service of Princess iv. 40 I cabled them to have him [sc. a dead man] iced up until—.
1959 A. L. Rowse Diary 16 Feb. (2003) 275 The hill is quite steep and all iced up.
1965 G. Jones Island of Apples ii. iii. 88 In spite of the fire the fright iced me up like Swamp water through and through.
1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 4 Jan. b6/1 Seven inches of snow fell on downtown Santa Fe Sunday, icing up roads and causing many minor accidents.
3. intransitive. To become covered, filled, or blocked with ice.
ΚΠ
1886 M. B. Crowninshield All among Lighthouses xiv. 389 She shipped great quantities of water, and iced up so fast they feared she would founder.
1914 Paper 25 Nov. 25/2 The open canals rapidly iced up, and considerable difficulty was experienced with anchor ice.
1978 Flying Mag. Sept. 96/1 Tower also advises the aircraft have been reporting..that windscreens are, uh, icing up on final.
1997 M. Y. Hubbert Winisk 24 They thought the gas line had iced up, always a likely scenario in that weather.
2003 I. Ferguson Village Small Houses i. 4 Everybody waits for the river to freeze solid. It takes at least three weeks for the river to ice up, maybe as much as six.
4. transitive (in passive). Of (part of) an aircraft or other vehicle: to become covered with ice (and thus rendered ineffective or inoperable).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > freeze > become frozen and unusable
to ice up1928
1928 Aviation 16 Apr. 1032/2 Once a plane has become iced-up, two alternatives for clearing away the accumulation of glazing may be available.
1940 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Jan. p. ii/4 During the operations a snowstorm was encountered and the aircraft became badly iced-up, in addition to being subjected to anti-aircraft fire.
1947 Sci. News 4 72 A ship has often been thoroughly de-greased by wind-swept rain and spray before it becomes iced-up.
1950 T. Longstaff This my Voy. ii. 24 By now we were all looking like Arctic travellers, well iced-up.
1998 G. Phinn Other Side of Dale (1999) xiii. 145 I got to the car and it was all iced up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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I.C.E.
I.C.E. n. Institution of Civil Engineers.
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1899 Who's Who 166/1 Major-General Sir John Ardagh, K.C.I.E. 1894, Assoc. I.C.E.
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I.C.E.
I.C.E. n. internal combustion engine.
Π
1950 Chambers's Encycl. XV. 586/2 I.C.E.: see Internal Combustion Engine.
1958 Listener 20 Nov. 835/2 The present advanced state of the internal combustion engine, or ‘I.C.E.’ as my log-book calls it.
1968 Economist 25 May 45/3 But now a modern version of the steam engine has appeared as the major threat to the ICE.
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