DCHP-3

sea-ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

masses of ice in the sea; ice formed from frozen salt water.

Quotations

1924
Bitterly cold in winter, Labrador has a short and lovely time when the snow and sea-ice melt. . . .
1946
. . . one of those cracks which generally divides [sic] the inshore ice, anchored to the rocks below, from the main body of floating sea ice.
2n. — Nfld

See: ice ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1952
"When I was your age I'd been to Spain and Italy . . . in schooners and square-riggers . . . and before that I'd been out to the sea-ice five seasons with the swilers."