abroad

Atlantic Provinces and North.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. or adv.

in phrases, of sea ice, broken up and dispersed.

Quotations

1909

The ice was now "all abroad," which I was sorry for, for there was a big safe pan not twenty yards from me.

1916

As they say on the coast, the ice had "gone abroad."