glare ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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smooth, translucent, slippery ice on lakes and rivers.

Quotations

1829

I . . . once beheld a large [wolf] in close pursuit of a buck on the glare ice of the Mississippi Lake.

1872

The lake freezes, but there is so little snow that the travellers prefer fording the river to trusting to the glare ice.

1939

Patches of glare ice showed bottle green all over it and the wind chased rills of blown snow across it, twisting and dancing as they went.

1963

. . . one cannot put brakes on in a hurry with just a light covering of snow over the glare ice. . . .

smooth, slippery ice formed on the ground after a fall of freezing rain or sleet.

1872

On our return we had not to face the wind, but the glare ice--from which the slight covering of snow had been blown off. . . .

1954

While regular chains are not as effective as the reinforced type on glare ice, they do provide good traction on snow and, to some extent, on ice.

1965

The road along the waterfront between the three causeway spans was glare ice in sections adding to the woes of the motorists.

any formation of smooth, translucent ice.

1956

Over us leaned a slim, graceful tower of glare ice fifty feet high, shaped by wind and sleet into beautiful curves and carved with delicate ridges.