shell ice

North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a formation of ice which once covered water but which stands alone as a shell, the water having receded.

Quotations

1924

The sled and I fell through the shell ice on to the gravel beach about seven feet below.

1963

Snow covered the ground in the morning, and a thin border of shell ice clattered on the lake shore.