ice workn.

1729 R. Savage Wanderer i. 107 On this bleak Height tall Firs, with Ice-work crown'd, Bend, while their flaky Winter shades the Ground!

1790 W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 7 The walls should be lined with flints, decorated with ice-work.

1825 Eng. Life i. 65 Her return to apparent apathy was not permitted. The ice-work was thawed, and approach was no longer impracticable.

1864 ‘M. Twain’ in Californian 22 Oct. 1/2 Vines and flowers..wrought in chilly ice-work.

1986 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 11 Jan. a8 When it is completed in two weeks, the palace will be the world's tallest ice work, standing about 15 stories high.

2001 D. Taylor Hospitality Sales & Promotion ix. 246 You need..something which is unusual and attracts the reader's attention. Ice work, sugar work and butter work all do this.

1843 C. Darwin Let. 5 Sept. in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 333 My marine theory for these roads was..knocked on the head by Agassiz' ice-work.

1874 J. Muir in Overland Monthly July 72/2 The right lateral of the tributary which took its rise between Red and Black mountains is a magnificent piece of ice-work.

1925 Sci. Monthly May 474 Wherever these rocks have been squeezed and crushed in mountain building the polish and striae of the pebbles disappear and the tillite may even be changed into a schist so that the proofs of ice work are lost altogether.

2002 D. R. Oldroyd Earth, Water, Ice & Fire xix. 258/2 Clifton Ward also attended to ice work in the Lakes, publishing a detailed account of the glacial phenomena of the northern Lakes.

1850 Let. Sept. in Rev. Proc. Arctic Searching Exped. (1851) 29 This voyage will condemn all full-bowed vessels for ice-work.

1899 Rep. Cruise U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear 93 She was a large steam schooner, not as well fitted for ice work as the whaling vessels.

1922 Marine Jrnl. 7 Jan. 34/3 (advt.) Tugs for sale... Sheathed with steel for ice work.

1997 T. H. Baughman Before Heroes Came iii. 27 Unlike later Antarctic vessels, the ships were not reinforced for ice work.

1856 A. Wills Wanderings High Alps xiv. 288 Our ice hatchet..was..better adapted to the mere ice-work we had then to perform.

1892 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 125 For a snow expedition—that is, one in which snow and ice work will probably form the chief difficulties—the numbers of a party may be largely increased even to eight or ten.

1940 F. S. Chapman Helvellyn to Himalaya iv. 89 I was not much good on really difficult rock, my experience of step-cutting and ice-work was small.

1999 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Jan. They set off to walk to the Aonach An Nid basin where they would practise their ice work.