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board-ice
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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See: shore-ice(def. 1)
Quotations
1904
For about a distance of one mile on each side of the Strait, the ice is attached to the shore and is known as the "board ice." Teams carry the passengers from the edge of the board ice to the Railway stations.
1923
Often it was difficult to effect a landing from the rushing tide full of tumbling bergs to the solid ice--board ice so called--which extends out from either shore.