open spring

Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a spring season in which the shores are virtually free of sea ice.

Quotations

1933

. . . in what the Newfoundlanders call an "Open Spring," the ice will be swept so far east . . . that the thankful land will be seen rejoicing. . . .