ice-blink†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1954 quote.

Quotations

1773

[[We saw a] bright appearance near the horizon, which the pilots called the blink of the ice.]

1850

We were pained to see, from the strong ice-blink to the S.W., that a body of packed ice had been driven up the straits by the late gales.

1954

Ice blink is the whitish glare of the clouds on or near the horizon produced by the reflection of large areas of sea ice in the vicinity.