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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a mass of densely packed pieces of heavy, sludgy ice, especially sea ice.
See: slob (ice)
Quotations
1918
This ice is of very different qualities. Now it is "slob" mixed with snow born on the Newfoundland coast. This is called "dirty ice" by the sealers.