DCHP-3

rotting

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

See rotten 1958 quote.

See: rotten

Quotations

1910
After the close of navigation it took two months to make the ice fit to travel upon, and for one month before the river and lakes again opened the rotting ice was fraught with terrible dangers.
1954
The creek ice was also rotting at the edges where it touched the warm, sunny bank on which I was lying.
1966
The rotting ice of earlier years floated low in the water, black, ugly and pock-marked with saucer-like holes.