false ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a surface layer of thin ice formed over the thick under-surface and separated from it by a layer of water, slush, or air of varying depth.

Quotations

1858

We had a good deal of trouble getting past several great rapids, where there was much false ice, through which our dogs broke several times.