rim-ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shelf of ice anchored to the bank of a river otherwise open.

See: ice-shelf(def. 2)

Quotations

1902

Nor, though the water was open, did she find a clear way, for the river was full of scattered floes which had crumbled down from the rim-ice.

1928

The big freighting canoes had been launched into a basin cracked out of the rim ice and were being loaded for the voyage.