DCHP-3

loaded ice

N.S., Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1845
In Nova Scotia the term "loaded ice" is in common use for large sheets of ice several acres in area, which are sometimes floated off from the rivers as the tide rises, with sedge and other salt-marsh plants frozen into their lower surfaces; also with mud adhering plentifully to their roots.