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candle ((v.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
of ice, form candles.
Quotations
1924
They were having a bad time, for dogs cannot choose good ice from bad, and continually they fell through the rotten, white, "candled" stuff and had to struggle out again.
1930
The sun causes the ice to "candle" producing disintigration by vertical weakening while the ice is still thick.
1963
The candling ice would support no burden in its fragmented condition.